Participants will flow into Patearoa today, a week after setting off on their respective old gold rush trails.
The public will be there to greet them and help celebrate their epic journey with a grand parade, market day and entertainment.
Among the participants who will be celebrating the end of the road for 2020 are those who have walked one of the trails, traversing between 19km and 24km each day.
Trail leader Sandra Cane said the views her group of 56 people were treated to along the way made it all worth it.
Mrs Cain, who has been leading a walking trail for the past 20 years, was looking forward to the group’s arrival into Puketoi Station last night, via the foothills near Sowburn Creek.
It was there that they would finally celebrate 25 years since the walking trails were added to the cavalcade.
The group was joined on their trek yesterday by children from St John’s School, who walked a section of the trail with them.
Otago Goldfields Heritage Trust started the cavalcade in 1991, to re-enact the gold rush era, when able-bodied men left their jobs and headed for the hills in search of gold.
