New Chum Gully Track

New Chum Gully is another great track that starts from Arrowtown. It is less popular than Sawpit Gully and perhaps slightly less well signed. The path crosses over some of the Glencoe Station ridgeline and is accessed via Tobins Track. The track has become quite overgrown recently, so wearing trousers is advisable to escape scrapes from the brambles.

Starting from the centre of Arrowtown, you can have a look around the rustic high street before setting off. Follow the path next to the Arrow River. When you reach a footbridge there is the option to turn off left up a 4x4 track: Tobin's track. This used to be a vital access road that enabled miners and villagers to traverse the steep hill over to Cardona and Wanaka. Around half way up this track there is a turn off again to the left up a steep track, signposted New Chums Gully. Follow this track up until you reach a junction. Here, you turn left again and start descending into a valley filled with small streams. It is here that the track is quite overgrown making it difficult to run. After climbing out of the other side of the valley, the path traverses the side of the hill before making the final descent down onto the Macetown Track. Here you have the option to cross over over the beautiful Norman Smith bridge and follow the small tack to town, passing clusters of colourful lupins. You could also stay on the big Macetown 4x4 track and splash though the river crossings (as long as river levels are safe to do so) which finishes in the same place.