Guidebook for Westland
Food Scene
Fat Pipi Pizza
89 Revell StThe best pizza in town!
Paroa Hotel
508 Main S RdBuccleugh's On High Restaurant at Recreation Hotel
68 High StStations Inn
11 Blue Spur RdSevenpenny
9 Tainui St
Lake Brunner Eco Lodge
Lunch or dinner in a beautiful setting
Drinks & Nightlife
Monteith's Brewing Company
60 Herbert StMoana Hotel Motel
34 Ahau StPunakaiki Tavern Accommodation & Bistro
State Highway 6Reefton Distilling Co.
10 Smith StBeautiful NZ made spirits and liqueurs
Parks & Nature
Lake Mahinapua
Lake Kaniere
Stunning little village with 2 restaurants, plenty of walks and safe swimming
12 locals recommend
Lake Brunner
Stunning little village with 2 restaurants, plenty of walks and safe swimming
Explore hidden subterranean caves just out of Charleston with a spectacular view of the glow worms. It’s out of this world!
16 locals recommend
Underworld Adventures
7368 State Hwy 6Explore hidden subterranean caves just out of Charleston with a spectacular view of the glow worms. It’s out of this world!
About an hour and a half from Greymouth, drive along one of the most scenic routes in the world to visit the Fur Seals at Tauranga Bay.
13 locals recommend
Seal Colony Tauranga Bay
About an hour and a half from Greymouth, drive along one of the most scenic routes in the world to visit the Fur Seals at Tauranga Bay.
Moutukiekie Beach Walk
1902 Coast Rd
Lake Brunner Eco Lodge
Lunch or dinner with a fabulous view over Lake Brunner
Sightseeing
West Coast Treetop Walk & Cafe
1128 Woodstock-Rimu RdWalk a well formed track to the world famous Pancake Rocks, soak in the stunning scenery along the insanely beautiful Great Coast Road - voted one of the worlds top drives by Lonely Planet, visit the starfish and sea stacks at Motukiekie beach.
46 locals recommend
Punakaiki
Walk a well formed track to the world famous Pancake Rocks, soak in the stunning scenery along the insanely beautiful Great Coast Road - voted one of the worlds top drives by Lonely Planet, visit the starfish and sea stacks at Motukiekie beach.
At the very top of the West Coast you will find the sleepy village of Karamea. What you will experience is limestone arches, caves, whiskey coloured river, lake, rainforest and moa bones.
Rich unspoiled rainforest stretching across a broad valley floor.
Three magnificent arches sculpted by the Oparara River.
Bush-fringed streams stained the colour of billy tea from the humic acids washing down through the soil.
A truly beautiful and unspoilt area well worth the time and effort to get there.
Oparara
At the very top of the West Coast you will find the sleepy village of Karamea. What you will experience is limestone arches, caves, whiskey coloured river, lake, rainforest and moa bones.
Rich unspoiled rainforest stretching across a broad valley floor.
Three magnificent arches sculpted by the Oparara River.
Bush-fringed streams stained the colour of billy tea from the humic acids washing down through the soil.
A truly beautiful and unspoilt area well worth the time and effort to get there.
Fox Glacier
Franz Josef Glacier
Reefton
A historic mining town with the best NZ gin distillery
Arts & Culture
Left Bank Art Gallery
1 Tainui StAndris Apse Photographer Ltd
109 The StrandNimmo Photography
102 MacKay StKotuku Pottery
1967 Arnold Valley RdEssentials
New World Hokitika
116 Revell StCountdown Greymouth
174 Mawhera QuayNew World Greymouth
128 High StGetting Around
Greymouth Railway Station
164 MacKay StThe West Coast Wilderness Trail provides a unique immersion into the nature and the people of the West Coast. This fabulous cycling adventure guarantees an outstanding landscape ride through dense rainforest, past glacial rivers and lakes and through wetlands, all the way from the snow-capped mountains of the Southern Alps to the ocean. And it is all accessed on one of the best cycle trail surfaces in the country.
10 locals recommend
West Coast Wilderness Trail
The West Coast Wilderness Trail provides a unique immersion into the nature and the people of the West Coast. This fabulous cycling adventure guarantees an outstanding landscape ride through dense rainforest, past glacial rivers and lakes and through wetlands, all the way from the snow-capped mountains of the Southern Alps to the ocean. And it is all accessed on one of the best cycle trail surfaces in the country.