Improvements at Moke Lake, Mt Crichton Loop Track, otherwise known as Sam Summers Track, and Wilson Bay were either finished, or scheduled to be finished by February.
Moke Lake, one of Queenstown's favourite picnic, day trip and camping areas, will feature a new pre-cast concrete camp shelter, open on two sides, complete with a pair of cooking benches and a pair of washing up sinks connected to a bore and tank water supply.
A total of nine stand pipes connected to a stream off Ben Lomond will be installed throughout the camping area.
A pair of unisex toilets with sinks in a concrete block will replace the pair of pit toilets and will be open before Christmas.
The water supply and sinks should deter recreational users from washing their clothes and cooking pots in the pristine lake water, which most people objected to, Doc project manager Richard Struthers said this week.
Landscaping and 150m of bollards will be added in autumn to keep vehicles back from the edge of the lake to reduce lake-shore crowding and the risk of vehicles getting stuck or falling into in the water.
Vehicle access on the unsealed road would be improved in the autumn by metalling main tracks and closing other tracks which were inappropriate or redundant.
Doc was to close the existing car park for 10 vehicles which serviced the start of the Mt Crichton Loop Track, near Closeburn, because its entrance was "very dangerous, particularly from Glenorchy, and can't meet minium sightline standards", Mr Struthers said.
"We will relocate before Christmas the Mt Crichton Track car park to the other side of the road on the Queenstown side of the 12 Mile Stream.
There will be a track from the new car park to the loop track start, so walkers will have an extra 500m to walk from the new car park, then cross the road on the new 12 Mile Delta link track.
"There will be a formalised crossing with signage and pedestrian barriers and signs warning motorists. The link track opens up some quite interesting new terrain and takes people through some gold mining heritage which generally has not been seen for decades."
The new car park will have space for 20 vehicles and room for large vehicles such as coaches and a single unisex toilet with disabled access will be built. The existing car park will be closed and then "deleted", Mr Struthers said.
A new unisex toilet with disabled access had now replaced a pit toilet at Wilson Bay.
All new toilets involved containment vaults which would be emptied by pump trucks.
"We have a programme of upgrading high use front country amenity areas and, subject to funding, they'll be more in the coming years," Mr Struthers said.
"We're in a very high use visitor area and many of the facilities are substandard for the level of use.
"It's not appropriate to have pit toilets in a camp site which can have 50 or more people a night."
