A Season to Celebrate
Reds, oranges, golds: Queenstown and the surrounding hillsides, lakeshores, parks blaze into spectacular colours in autumn.
Reds, oranges, golds: Queenstown and the surrounding hillsides, lakeshores, parks blaze into spectacular colours in autumn. It’s been this way for 150 years, since the first settlers planted poplar trees to protect and nourish the land they had cleared to create farms, and to remind them of the homes they had left on the other side of the world. Today’s Queenstown takes advantage of this most beautiful of seasons, wooing visitors to New Zealand’s premier getaway destination with festivals to celebrate the region’s food, wine and artisan produce as well as to indulge in the artistic side of its nature, too.