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Westport Area: Heritage Experiences
Buller’s landscape has not only shaped by nature, but the efforts of early pioneers who came looking for gold and coal. Their dedication, camaraderie and hard slog gave this area its hospitality and charm that visitors will experience. And pride in our industrial heritage is why we like showing it all off today! You’ll be overly impressed just how much got done with just pick and shovels.
Coaltown Museum
Coaltown is an industrial Museum dedicated to telling the stories...
The Buller District has a rich history, Coaltown is an industrial Museum dedicated to telling the stories of the pioneers that battled...
165 Queen St
Westport
New Zealand
Phone: +64 3 789 8204
Fax: +64 3 789 8204
Email: info@coaltown.co.nz
Denniston - Bridle Path
Our early settlers did it with all their belongings –...
A challenging but rewarding uphill climb, from the bottom to the top. Before the Incline coal cableway was built in 1878, our...
Denniston - Coalbrookdale Walk
Where the first coal on Denniston was discovered in...
Burnetts Face carpark is the start of the Coalbrookdale Walk. A good shingle road behind Denniston (still used by coal trucks) leads...
Denniston - Town Walk
Feel the spirit of The Hill!
Known as the Hill, there were two separate townships linked by the Incline – one, the larger, was Denniston, and the other...
Denniston Incline and Brakehead
"8th Wonder of the World" - Denniston is over 660...
On fine days the views to the horizon of the Tasman Sea and up the Coast are unbeatable – but mist,...
Friends of the Hill Museum
The Friends of the Hill Society is a group of...
From "The Camp" to Coalbrookdale, preserved and displayed for the public. We have a long term lease on the former Denniston High...
Northern Buller Museum, Granity
Located in the centre of Granity (sign posted off the...
The first is a Nissan hut, which used to be a store for Solid Energy. Inside the Nissan hut we have...
54-56 Back Road,
Granity, 7823,
New Zealand
Phone: 64-3 7828548
Email: aleyne@xtra.co.nz
The Charleston Nile River Rainforest Train
Is a short interpretative train ride in open sided carriages...
The 90 minute return journey takes you in to the magnificent Nile River Canyon and passes through the “The Lost World” film...
SH 6
Charleston 7865
New Zealand
Phone: 03 7888 168
Free Phone: 0800 11 6686
The Denniston Experience
Welcome to New Zealand’s newest visitor experience, based on one...
Phone: +64 0800 881 880 The new interactive visitor attraction at Denniston offers visitors a unique set of experiences of one of...
Operated by Stelvio Ltd
Box 21-720
Henderson
Auckland 0650
Free Phone: 0800 881 880
Email: info@denniston.co.nz




