Fernhill Loop Details

Activities
- Mountain Bike
- Hike
- Trail Running
Riding Area

Fernhill Trails
Queenstown
Difficulty Rating

Advanced rate
Hiking SAC Scale

T3 Demanding Mountain Hiking
Trail Type

Singletrack
Bike Type

AM, XC
Trail Usage

Multi-use
Direction

Both Directions
Climb Difficulty

Black Diamond
Physical Rating

Hard
Trail Visibility

Sometimes hard to follow
Season

All year
Alpine Trail

Yes
Dogs Allowed

Yes
TTFs on Trail

Drop, Jump, Rock Garden
Global Ranking

#18254 in Mountain Biking
Local Popularity
25 in Mountain Biking [+]
- 5 in Trail Running
- 5 in Hiking
Year Opened

1990
Land Manager

QLDC

A classic Queenstown trail chock full of gnarly roots that started life as a DOC (govt) track, was shunted by DOC to the QLDC (local council) who the ignored it for a couple of years and closed it. Now licensed to QMTBC who will upgrade, extend and maintain it.
The west (Fernhill) side climb from the Wynyard bike park is a great way to access the McNearlyGnarly jump trail. The East (bike park) side has a great descent that links into Squid Run and there are awesome views from the top if you continue past the treeline where Beech As exits has a fantastic backcounty feel just minutes from the town center.

Access Info

Access from Wynyard Bike Park where the first 1.4km are nice and easy up to McNearlyGnarly but its gets steeper up until you get to the open to visit McGazzas bench. Also accessed via Beeched As where you can choose to descend the East side 'roots' into Squid Run or carry on round to Mcgazzas bench and down the west side to McNearlyGnarly

Disclaimer

Shared use track so be aware of walkers

More Stats for Fernhill Loop bike trail

Altitude change

317 ft
Altitude min

1,564 ft
Altitude max

3,064 ft
Altitude start

1,653 ft
Altitude end

1,969 ft
Grade

1.4%
Grade max

-57.9%
Grade min

74.9%
Distance climb

2 miles
Distance down

2 miles
Distance flat

1,181 ft
Avg time

00:58:29
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Status:

on Apr 13, 2019

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