Milford Track is FULLY booked

Plenty of other Great Walks in the area. I've never heard anyone say that Milford is the best. Routeburn and Kepler are nearby, plus trails like Greenstone/Caples with no regulations.
But fuck the landgrabbing DOC, anyway. Nazis with a serious siege mentality and no desire to improve their public image.

You could do the Dusky Track instead. It's similar to the Milford Track but no way near as popular.

http://www.southernalpsphotography.com/Tramping/Fiordland/Dusky-Track-2015/

>>1254281
Bookings for next season opened on the 17th at 9am and pretty much all the holiday periods were booked out by 9pm that night. Such high demand is normal for the Milford. I didn't bother booking this year because I want to do it last to finish off the Great Walks (the privilege of being a local I guess).

The Kepler was specifically built to take some of the demand off the Milford, it has comparable scenery and gets less rain. You might consider that instead. The Routeburn is great too, just a bit shorter (I did it a month ago).

If you're not familiar with tramping (hiking) in NZ then I would not recommend the non-Great Walks in Fiordland as they're more dangerous.

>>1254302
DOC have had their funding slashed for the past 8 years under the National government. They make a loss on the Great Walks as it is (hence the recent price increase). How are they supposed to improve services when they're already struggling financially?

>>1254281
No there aren't ticket resellers. You can do it via a private guiding company and their prices are so steep (~NZ$2000) that they usually have places available. You get to stay in private catered lodges and stuff. That's the only way you'll get a spot probably but I think you're better off doing a different Great Walk.

Milford Sound is so overrated if you live close to Norway.

>>1254524
I doubt it. Have you been there?

>>1254524
Are Norway's fiords filled with rain-forest too?

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>>1254302
Lynch yourself you antienvironmentalist retard
We should be expanding our national parks and increasing conservation funding, not the opposite
Most of our native birds are threatened of extinction

Sorry to piss you off OP but I'm one of those who booked it. I will be starting January 21st. I'm at the moment debating which of the other walks in the area I should do before. I think the Routeburn looks better than the Kepler track so I'll go with that.