Minnehaha Walk

This was a gem. The podicarp forest has been covered with moss, the trunks and the broken shrub parts overgrown with different types. It feels like walking through a land before time or fairyland - I kept expecting a dinosaur or Oberon to step around the next bend. An absolutely lovely experience that I highly recommend - so much return for only a 20 minute walk.

I can’t put up a photo as it’s dark to see the glow worms. But it is great walk. You better be careful as you won’t be carrying a great light source, you don’t know where you are, it might be freaky and haunted if you are not brave. It takes about 50min in the dark walk. At the moment you anticipate to see no one along the way as travel industry is dead. So brace for the fear.

Great little walk! At night time you can see the glow worms too!

Nice walk with good view. The 600m walk is covered by forests and pretty comfortable.

The physical address of the walk is next to the welcome road signs as you enter the township from the south. DO NOT FOLLOW GOOGLE OR OTHER SIGNS.The walk is totally worth it, easy to navigate and we saw lots and lots of glow worms.We visited 9 January 2023 and at 10pm at night as suggested by others.

The Fox Glacier South Side Walkway/Cycleway follows the south bank of the Fox River through ancient podocarp rainforest. The track heads gently up the valley crossing ancient glacial moraine surfaces, with the forest reflecting the various ages of the glacier moraines which it has colonised.The first viewpoint of the glacier is reached after approximately 40 minutes walk, before the track continues to reach an old car park. This is as far as you can cycle – all bikes must be left here before continuing on foot.The track winds gently downhill through the rainforest for approximately 10 minutes to a view point of Fox Glacier Te Moeka o Tuawe. Do not go past this point due to extreme flood hazard.

Excellent walk at night to see gloworms. We went around 9pm and arrived at the same time as a party of 50+ tourists with bright lights and lots of noise! As mentioned by others this isn’t good for seeing gloworms so we waited for them to get some way ahead. The experience is best if you avoid using lights and allow your eyes to adjust to the darkness and take it easy along the paths. Beware there is currently (April 2023) a section where two large trees have fallen across the path so you will need light to navigate those

You must go after dark to see that glow worms which are pretty spectacular when you get a chance to see them but there a heaps of people and lots of those people do not understand that you can't see glow worms with you lights on. It's very important that you limit the amount of noise and light when trying to find glow worms because those thing can make them not shine their light. I would suggest going late at night, like 11pm or later, to ensure the majority of people have left and you can just turn your lights off let your eyes adjust and walk that track in serenity allowing the glow worms to amaze you

It's convenient to have a red light flashlight，Walk in for 3-5 minutes and you'll see the glowworms.

Really nice walk, especially if you have kids. Little bridges crossing streams, birds singingIt's good to do it in daytime and in night time- when you can see glow worms