Mount Greenland Road, Ross, Westland
**Ross Water Race Walkway - 1.5 hours **
Start at the Visitors’ Centre carpark, turn left up Bold Street and continue along Mt Greenland Road until you come to the track sign. As you walk up Mt Greenland Road, you get views of the modern mining operation and walk alongside Jones Creek where gold was first discovered in 1865. Once on the track, you climb through bush for a short distance before the path flattens out. You pass sluice faces, mine tunnels, a replica of a miner’s hut, water races, remnants of gold workings and fluming. The end of the track takes you through the old cemetery whose headstones provide a poignant commentary on the harshness of life in the early days of settlement: it’s difficult to find a headstone of anyone who lived for 50 years. When you emerge onto St James Street, detour around Bond Street back into Bold Street for additional displays associated with goldmining.
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