{"id":2734,"date":"2019-12-10T20:09:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T01:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/?p=2734"},"modified":"2025-08-07T16:42:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T20:42:55","slug":"keplar-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/keplar-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Keplar Track"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Following our wonderful few days in Milford Sound, and on our last full day in New Zealand, we stayed in Te Anau, which was on our way back to Queenstown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike the point-to-point routes of the Milford and Routeburn tracks, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doc.govt.nz\/parks-and-recreation\/places-to-go\/fiordland\/places\/fiordland-national-park\/things-to-do\/tracks\/kepler-track\/\">Keplar track<\/a> is a 3-4 day, roughly 60km loop with a trailhead not far from Te Anau. We knew we couldn&#8217;t do the whole loop, so we decided on a section, departing from Te Anau, headed southward or clockwise on the track toward Lake Manapouri and Motarau Hut.   <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"601\" src=\"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-02-at-8.45.41\u202fAM-1024x601.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-02-at-8.45.41\u202fAM-1024x601.png 1024w, https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-02-at-8.45.41\u202fAM-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-02-at-8.45.41\u202fAM-768x451.png 768w, 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Unlike the point-to-point routes of the Milford and Routeburn tracks, the Keplar track is a 3-4 day, roughly 60km loop with a trailhead not far from Te Anau. We knew we couldn&#8217;t do the whole loop, so we decided on a section, departing from Te Anau, headed southward or clockwise<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/keplar-track\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"category-hiking.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2734"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4819,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions\/4819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}