Cave
Cave Stream
Arthur's Pass, Canterbury
Wade and scramble through a 594 m limestone cave along a stream, wetsuit and torch required.
- Cost
- Free
- Booking
- No need to book
- Time to allow
- 75 min
A DOC-managed stream cave on the Canterbury high country, where you walk upstream in cold water, past a small waterfall, with the cave's roof pressing close. It's a bit of an adventure and not for everyone, but it needs no guide if you're prepared.
Good to know
- Two torches per person and a wetsuit, DOC recommends head torches
- Don't go after heavy rain, the cave can flood fast
- Don't go alone and tell someone your plan
- Cotton and denim are a bad idea, wear synthetics
- Best time
- Settled weather, summer
- Open
- All year
- Getting there
- Roadside car park off SH73, short walk to the entrance
- Vehicles
- Campervans fine
- Dogs
- No dogs
Facilities
- Toilets
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