Charming Creek Walkway

Excellent walk, if open

A really great walk if the full track is open (at 2021 closed because of slips). When we've done the full walk it has been really good, and okay for small children if you take your time and plenty of ...

Only accessible from Seddonville

Closed Ngakawau end due to slip. You can access the bins and old engine, about 10 mins, but that is all from this end now.

Currently Only A Short Walk

The Charming Creek Railway was a privately owned line which provided transport for the timber milling and coal mining operations in the valley. My plan was to walk from the Ngakawau track end to Watso...

Dec 20/Jan 2021 - part of the track is closed, we were disjointed to only get so far.....

Really lovely track and would highly recommend to walk or cycle BUT when we went we could only get so far, perhaps 1km then had to turn around as the track was closed Dec 20/Jan 21 - we shall return t...

Wonderful waterfall

We tried the Charming creek walkway as a short walkway not so far away from Westport. The trail follows an old railway track for the timber business in the last century. Some of the railway equipment ...