The Lodge & Cottages Wedderburn :: Accommodation and Four Wheel Drive Tours, Central Otago

The Lodge & Cottages Wedderburn, Accommodation and Four Wheel Drive Tours, Central Otago

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Further Information and Bookings:
PO Box 11
Wedderburn
Central Otago
Lenny: 03 444 9579
or Mob: 021 119 0180
George: 03 444 9127
or Mob: 021 183 8109
Email:
offtrailtours@wedderburn.net.nz

Complement your Central Otago Rail Trail journey with a guided tour exploring the surrounding hinterlands in the comfort of our modern Four Wheel Drive vehicles. Our professional guides are locals born and breed, they will take you on an adventure to rediscover the goldfields and towns of yesteryear that helped give birth to Otago and New Zealand.

Our excellent tour options include the local High country, Farm Visits, Historical Pubs and Buildings, Historical Churches and Cemeteries, Fishing and Golf. Or why not customise a tour to suit you? This area of Central Otago is inc-named “Big Sky Country” and there are some amazing elevated views of the Maniototo, Ida Valleys and beyond.

Historical Pub Tour
Popular with the gentlemen - this tour incorporates up to six local Pubs that date back to the early 1900’s. All with rich and interesting histories and most have a story to tell. Refreshments included.

Duration: Allow 2-3 hours

4WD High Country Tour
Fantastic elevated views, a land of rock & tussock. BBQ lunch provided - you will travel on gravel roads and tracks exploring farms and scenery not seen by many. - Don’t forget to bring your camera!

Duration: Allow 3-4 hours

Customised Tour
Allow Off Trail Tours to customise a tour to suit your needs, this can include any of the area activities such as curling, fishing and golf. Visit historical towns such as St Bathans, Ophir, Oturehua and Naseby. We also organise local accommodation.

Picnics & Barbecue Option

Try a "Picnic Hamper Pampers" or barbecue at a destination of your choosing - or let us show you places of hidden treasures that will captivate you. Please inquire.

TOUR Guest comments

"We thoroughly enjoyed our tour to St Bathans. The history is fascinating with so many of the original buildings still there, and the Blue Lake is just so spectacular. We wouldn't have missed it and it added so much to our trip on the Rail Trail."

"Our tour to Naseby was very interesting. The real stand-out was the Watchmaker's shop with its classification A with the Historic Places Trust. The Museum was really interesting, too. We did not realise Naseby had such a gold-mining heritage with its water races and sluicings and Coalpit and Hogburn gullies. A real treat!"

"George took us up the Hawkdun Ranges and we can't get over the amazing Central Otago scenary and the views with Mount Cook in the background. We went places yopu cannot usually go and it was well worth taking the extra day we took to complete the Rail Trail. It also allowed us a round of golf!"