Coal Creek Falls — Attraction in South Island

An incredibly pleasant and easy walk along a well established path through interesting native bush before the trees open up to a beautiful waterfall. A couple of benches are well placed to just take in the falls, or climb down the steps to a rocky river that provides lots of rock finding opportunities for the kids.

Note that everything about this walk says it's one hour return except for the sign at the entrance that says two hours. It's an easy one hour return with kids. Also note that Google Maps may send you down the wrong road on the approach. The carpark is on Ballance Street (just follow the yellow signs when you're off...

Nice afternoon stroll in an area that feels quite remote, with really beautiful scenery and a lovely waterfall at the end where you can sit back, relax, and take it all in.

The entrance sign says it’s 1hour round trip. It’s easy to do it quicker than that, but if you’re stopping to actually enjoy the wilderness then it could very well be accurate. It’s fairly accessible to people of all fitness levels and children.

I was in and out in under an hour, including stopping for about 5 minutes to climb a tree, and spending about 10 minutes at the waterfall sitting and taking...

Not a must do but nice if you have the time. The walk goes downhill mostly on the way to the waterfall so walking back uphill on the return. The signs at the front are wrong, it takes less time to walk, maybe 1hr return, 30 min each way. Waterfalls are nice. There is a bench to view the waterfall from above or you can walk down steps to the water's edge. Many slippy rocks so you cannot get close. Free...