Devil's Staircase Lookout Point
Roadside lookout above a cliff-cut lakeside highway, facing jagged peaks and deep blue water.
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This guide to the Devil's Staircase Lookout Point, on the lakeside road between Queenstown and Kingston, is about a name that is older than the road it now belongs to. It follows a rough track above Lake Wakatipu, the folklore of cattle and a stranded explorer, and an April day in eighteen eighty-five when a militia captain passed up the steamer. Best heard at the rail, looking back along the bends you just drove.
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