Queenstown — Sights
A lakeside town where every morning starts with an adventure.
- Skyline Gondola & Luge — Ride up over the lake, race down on a luge cart
- Bob's Peak Lookout — The postcard view of Queenstown, from above
- Queenstown Gardens & Lake Wakatipu Waterfront — A loop around a garden peninsula jutting into the lake
- TSS Earnslaw & Walter Peak Farm — A 1912 coal steamer across the lake to a sheep farm
- Shotover Jet — A jet boat skimming the walls of a narrow canyon
- Kawarau Bridge Bungy — The world's first commercial bungy, 43 m off a bridge
- Ben Lomond Track — A full-day climb to the peak behind Queenstown
- Queenstown Hill & Basket of Dreams — Look over the lake from inside a giant steel basket
- Arrowtown — Gold-rush village that turns gold in autumn
- Glenorchy & Paradise — A lakeside drive to a red shed and a mountain valley
- Milford Sound Day Trip — Fiord cliffs and waterfalls worth the long bus ride
- Wānaka (That Wānaka Tree & Roys Peak) — A lone willow in the lake and a famous ridge view
- Onsen Hot Pools — An hour in a cedar tub on a canyon cliff
- The Remarkables & Coronet Peak Ski Areas — Southern-hemisphere skiing during Korea's summer
- Gibbston Valley Wineries — Pinot Noir among vines in a schist gorge
- Moke Lake — A quiet lake loop at the end of a gravel road
- Lake Hayes — On a calm morning the hills stand upside down in it
- Queenstown Gardens Disc Golf — Throw a disc round tall pines on the lake peninsula
- Queenstown Trail, Frankton Track — A flat lakeside walk or ride out to Frankton
- Lake Wakatipu Cruise (Million Dollar Cruise) — See the Remarkables from out on the lake
- Lakes District Museum — Small museum of Arrowtown gold-rush life
- Arrowtown Chinese Settlement — Restored miners' huts under the willows
- Queenstown Bay Beach — Remarkables views from a central pebble beach
- Kiwi Birdlife Park — Park with nocturnal kiwi and native birds