Where is reefton

Entry Forms available from the Reefton Visitor Centre. Entries Close 20th August at 5pm. The Painkiller track is fully open. Some rough sections require backcountry bush navigation skills to traverse around. Every Saturday 10am-2pm. Text Princess or Tessa [email protected]. A Blackball art show with a difference. Submit your work of art, show it for a month. Bring your entry, ready to hang or display to the Blackball Inn on December 13th by 4pm. Contact: 03 Read more. Proud about the past, excited about the future!

A great base to explore fascinating Reefton. Visit Victoria Con…. We offer shuttle services for The Old Ghost Road and…. Call into our historic cafe and bakery, the locals have since - for great coffee, great food, great service.

Historic Lawyers Offices - circa transformed into high quality accommodation with ensuite rooms Qualmark 4. Seven ground floor apartment style self-contained one and two bedroom units. Located in the heart of Reefton. This website will not function correctly without javascript. The best thing of all is that you can discover a balance of history and nature by mountain biking the crazy amount of tracks on offer here, or along the rivers for white water rafting and fishing.

The Lookout Track is a steady gradient up to a cellphone tower opening that just happens to have amazing views over Reefton and its surrounding mountains. Whether you come up here by foot or by bike, we suggest you make this the first thing you do in town to really give you perspective.

Find out more at Mountain Biking in Reefton. Location: Start from Reefton on State Highway 7 to Greymouth for a few hundred metres then turn up Soldiers Road where the Lookout Track is signposted on the left-hand side. You will return back into town. A cheap activity to do in Reefton is to visit The Bearded Miners.

Find out what rocks to look out for on your next hike to find a precious stone. This is as authentic a Kiwi experience as you can get! Reefton might have a reputation for mountain biking but the town also draws keen fishers every year!

The Inangahua River flowing through Reefton is the easiest to access with a good population of trout. You could even go on a hiking mission to Lake Daniels, which is an easy three hour one way hike with a DOC hut at the end for overnight stays. Hire fishing gear from the Reefton Sports Centre. There are also a couple of guides in town who can teach you some fishing skills. Location: Take your pick of rivers! Not only can you check out the original street lamps of the town still standing although not in use , but the first light that was powered by electricity in on the street stills shines brightly on the Oddfellows Hall.

Go see the light after dark to see a piece of history. On the subject of electricity, go to the powerhouse that made Reefton the fifth settlement in the world to distribute power to the public. The Old Powerhouse can be seen along the Bottled Lightning Powerhouse Walk minute loop and is easily accessible from town.

Information boards at the Old Powerhouse will give you more information about its history. Reefton has a rich gold mining history and there is still some gold to be found in the rivers. A popular place to try your luck is Slab Hut Creek. Slab Hut Creek is also a Department of Conservation campground. Location: 10km 6 miles south of Reefton. Explore water races, a poppet head, steam-winding engines that lowered gold up the mineshafts, and the Big River dam.

You can also get some great views of the surrounding mountain ranges. Check out Mountain Biking in Reefton for more details. Location: 25km At Big River, you can stay overnight in the hut. Use your two legs to get you around the Reefton Walkway! Or do this track by bike to get around in 15 minutes.