The Queenstown Gardens are a peninsula of 23 hectares jutting into Lake Wakatipu immediately south of the town centre — laid out in 1867 as a public garden on what was then a bare shingle spit and now forested with mature exotic and native trees (oaks, larches, and some massive Douglas firs). The peninsula's flat walking circuit (about 3 kilometres) is one of the town's most popular recreational loops.
The gardens contain a 9-hole frisbee golf course, a disc golf course, lawn bowls and an ice-skating rink (winter only), a skate park, and the Queenstown Rose Garden — a small formal rose garden with about 200 varieties. The eastern tip of the peninsula provides an excellent view across Lake Wakatipu to Cecil Peak and Walter Peak, and a memorial to the 2019 Christchurch mosque attacks is at the northern end.
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The Queenstown Gardens were laid out in 1867
The peninsula covers 23 hectares
The walking circuit is about 3 kilometres
The rose garden contains about 200 varieties
Get walking directions
Park St, Queenstown, 9300, New Zealand
