Walking & hiking

Reefton walks

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Walks in the Reefton, Waiuta and Lewis Pass area.

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Bottled Lightening Powerhouse

Time: 40 minutes.

Skill level: Easy.

NZ’s first power generation site. Walk from the Reefton Visitor Centre.

App available to download with more information and story telling.

Prohibition Mine and Ball Mine

Time: 1 hour.

Skill level: Easy.

From the old Waiuta town site winds up to the top of the country’s deepest mine shaft.

Alpine Nature walk

Time: Twenty minutes.

Skill level: Easy.

Start at St James Walkway car park, located 400m east of Lewis Pass, a great place to do a short walk through alpine wetland enjoying views of Mt Gloriana and Spenser Mountains.

Ghost town

Accessible by car.

The most famous West Coast ghost town located 17 km off SH 7, midway between Reefton and Greymouth.

Directions

Reefton, West Coast, New Zealand, New Zealand

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Reefton

Accommodation

Slab Hut Creek Campsite

Close to Reefton township and a great base for exploring Victoria Forest Park walks.

$4 - $8 per night

Reefton

See & Do

West Coast Mountain Biking - Reefton Gold

The old gold miners, timber millers and horse packers of the West Coast knew how to build a track and make it last. Nowadays, many of these historic tracks can still be ridden, but with a more sophisticated ride - a mountain bike.

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Reefton

Towns, Places & Info centres

Reefton

Reefton, on the Lewis Pass road and near Victoria Conservation Park (NZ's largest), is well worth a stop and its claim to fame is an illuminating one – in 1888 it was the first town in the Southern Hemisphere to have electric streetlights!