Queenstown’s Best

The Queenstown Gardens occupy a peninsula extending into Lake Wakatipu, defined by a dense, protective forest of mature Douglas firs and other exotic trees. This botanical landscape was established in eighteen sixty-six, when the borough’s…

Patagonia Chocolates is recognized by the hand-painted mural on its interior walls, which depicts the journey of the business from Argentina to Queenstown. The shop was established in two thousand five by Alex Gimenez and Lorena…

Skyline Queenstown is marked by an aerial gondola that climbs four hundred eighty meters from the edge of town to the summit of Bob's Peak. This steep cable car line, which carries passengers high above Lake Wakatipu, serves as the primary…

The Basket of Dreams is an expansive steel and schist sculpture perched near the summit of Queenstown Hill. Created by the artist Caroline Robinson, the work was commissioned as part of the community’s celebrations for the new millennium.…

Onsen Hot Pools and Day Spa sits on a hillside above the Shotover River in Arthurs Point. You can identify the site by its series of private, cedar-lined hot tubs, each equipped with a retractable roof that opens to the canyon views. The…

Coronet Peak defines the skyline above the Wakatipu Basin, recognizable by the expansive, groomed alpine slopes that stretch across the mountain face. Since its opening in nineteen forty-seven, this site has operated as New Zealand’s first…

The Arrowtown Chinese Settlement consists of a cluster of low-slung stone and corrugated iron huts nestled on the banks of Bush Creek. Established in the eighteen sixties after the Otago Provincial Council invited Chinese miners from…