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Lake Tennyson
Hanmer Springs, Canterbury
Remote high-country lake with a basic DOC camp, reached by gravel from Hanmer Springs.
- Price
- DOC fee, check current rate
- Booking
- No need to book
- Time to allow
- 24 hours
- Sites
- 10
A bleak, beautiful lake in the high country, good for trout fishing and kayaking. The camp is basic, and the road in is gravel and best driven in dry weather.
Good to know
- Take everything you need
- Cold even in summer
- Best time
- Summer
- Open
- Summer
- Getting there
- Gravel, 2WD possible from Hanmer, 4WD from the north.
- Vehicles
- 4WD only
- Dogs
- No dogs
Facilities
- Toilets
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