Visit West Coast Region with Mighway

Harihari Coastal Walkway

Enjoy spectacular views while walking through estuaries, bogs and also a swamp forest.

The track features remnants of old pack tracks, an old log tramway and whitebaiters huts.

Take your fishing gear to the Wanganui River mouth. It's a great place for whitebaiting, angling and eeling.

The beach and Wanganui River estuary section of track are only suitable within 2 hours of low tide. Check the tide times posted at the start of the walk, as well as the current track conditions and weather forecasts at the Westland Tai Poutini National Park Visitor Centre and i-SITE before starting your trip.

Hokitika Gorge

The Hokitika Gorge is 33kms from Hokitika. The vivid turquoise water surrounded by lush native bush is well worth a visit.

It is a short walk from the car park through a mainly rimu and podocarp forest to a viewing platform where the water has to be seen to be believed. An awesome viewing platform is just four minutes from the car park and this part of the track is accessible for wheelchairs. Carry on further to an impressive swing bridge and the granite rocks of the gorge's walls.

For good views further up the gorge, cross the swing bridge and when you come to the end, turn left (straight ahead leads to private farmland). The track continues for another 200m through the bush to another viewing platform with looking out to the gorge upstream of the bridge.

Bonz 'N Stonz

Hokitika is renown as the jade capital of New Zealand. Bonz ‘n Stonz is the only workshop currently running in New Zealand, in which you may carve: jade, bone or shell.

Come in and spend a day, carving a pendant that you design yourself. Steve, your tutor, will guide you through every step of the process. When first starting it is helpful to have a design planned. This can shorten the time needed for the experience.

Designs are drawn on paper before being transferred to the slice of jade, bone or shell.

Outwest Tours

Enjoy spectacular landscapes and travel historic mining trails, as you relax in one of their fully air-conditioned four-wheel-drive vehicles.

Johnny’s Journey with Outwest, the only company with access to the privately owned valley, will delight and captivate the visitor. Here visitors can meet local legend, and owner Johnny Currie and observe the wild red deer, the pancake rock formations, see the ancient Maori cave and much more.

The Mackley Tour travels up to the Denniston Plateau, through the wild country and then returns to Westport via the scenic Buller Gorge. Be prepared for rugged landscapes and river crossings all in the comfort of one of Outwest’s specially designed vehicles. This trip offers spectacular scenery and rugged terrain featuring fast-flowing rivers, deep gorges and waterfalls. It’s an exciting, full-day journey into genuine wilderness.

The Denniston Tour visits the coal plateau high above the coastal flats. Here underground miners toiled extracting high quality coal and there are many amazing relics from the mining era. Denniston is an area rich in history, unusual landforms and outstanding scenery.