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Milford Sound Highway Drive

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State Highway 94 from Te Anau to Milford Sound is consistently ranked among the world's most scenic drives. It climbs through beech forest and tussock valleys, passes mirror-still lakes reflecting sheer mountains, punches through the hand-carved Homer Tunnel, and descends to Milford Sound — Rudyard Kipling's "eighth wonder of the world."

Stops on This Tour (9)

  1. 1
    Te Anau Lakefront The gateway town to Fiordland — the southern shore of Lake Te Anau, New Zealand's second-largest lake, with the Murch... 🔒 Hear the full story in the Nara app
  2. 2
    Te Anau Downs The launch point for the Milford Track — the only way to reach the start of the 53km "finest walk in the world" is by... 🔒 Hear the full story in the Nara app
  3. 3
    Eglinton Valley A wide, U-shaped glacial valley where beech forest opens into golden tussock flats — kea (alpine parrots) are often s... 🔒 Hear the full story in the Nara app
  4. 4
    Mirror Lakes A five-minute boardwalk to a small lake that reflects the Earl Mountains so perfectly that a famously upside-down sig... 🔒 Hear the full story in the Nara app
  5. 5
    Lake Gunn Nature Walk A 45-minute loop through ancient, moss-draped red beech forest — the trees here are 500 years old, their trunks carpe... 🔒 Hear the full story in the Nara app
  6. 6
    The Divide The lowest east-west pass in the Southern Alps at 534 metres — the starting point for the Routeburn and Greenstone-Ca... 🔒 Hear the full story in the Nara app
  7. 7
    Homer Tunnel (Eastern Portal) An unlined, hand-carved 1. 🔒 Hear the full story in the Nara app
  8. 8
    The Chasm A short walk to a narrow gorge where the Cleddau River has carved bizarre sculptures from solid rock — natural bridge... 🔒 Hear the full story in the Nara app
  9. 9
    Milford Sound (Piopiotahi) The fiord itself — Mitre Peak rising 1,692 metres straight from the water, permanent waterfalls cascading from hangin... 🔒 Hear the full story in the Nara app

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