FOR THE LOVE OF GOLD

WE CAN THANK New Zealand’s early gold miners for many of the best mountain bike tracks we ride today. Nowhere is this more apparent than on the South Island’s West Coast, and no town is better endowed with historic mining relics, tracks and trails than Reefton.

Reefton began life in 1870 on the opposite bank of the Inangahua River to where it is now. Originally called Quartzopolis, as it grew and migrated across the river its