Thread: Blue mountain & Four Peaks Range Access?

Question for south Canterbury folks - has anyone managed to get access to Blue mountain & Four Peaks Range conservation blocks without having to pay the Blue Mountain Station access fee? On the Access maps it looks like there is a paper road all the way around the south boundary of the doc land. Probably the usual hassle of it not following and logical landform on the ground. Checked with the local DoC office and got the following response.

Yes the Legal line of Mowbray road does run to the public conservation area. It is not formed all the way though and is fenced at the end of the formed track. From the fence it passes through Four Peaks Station for a short distance.
Dogs are permitted on the Conservation land if under control. It is difficult to get there though without crossing private land.

Bit of a bugger to have to pay a couple of hundred to cross what looked like on paper maybe a few meters of private land. Be good to know if anyone else has got in successfully before I do a trip down to scout it out.