Invercargill City
Accommodation in Invercargill City
Invercargill City offers a wide range of experiences: motorcycles and vehicles, walks through coastal landscapes and bush, as well as gardens and Bluff oysters. If you’re looking for a holiday rental, you could start by asking which experiences you’d like to shape your stay. This lets you plan around your own interests rather than grouping every outing under a single theme.
Motorcycles and vehicle history
Classic Motorcycle Mecca is housed in two historic buildings in the Invercargill CBD and features more than 300 motorcycles. Its focus is clearly on motorcycles. If you’re interested in vehicles in a broader context, Bill Richardson Transport World has more than 300 vehicles. The two collections offer different reasons to visit: motorcycles here, a vehicle collection there.
Burt Munro’s authentic, original and legendary 1920 Indian Scout motorcycle is on display at E Hayes and Sons. This single motorcycle adds a specific object with its own name and year of manufacture to the larger collections. If you’re interested in motorcycle history, you can treat it as a distinct point of interest alongside a visit to Classic Motorcycle Mecca.
Walks, coast and viewpoints
Te Wahi Tākaro o Motupōhue Adventure Park has more than 10 km of mountain biking and walking trails. This offers different ways to spend time outdoors on the trails. The Foveaux Walkway, by contrast, is an easy, well-formed track along the coast of Motupōhue (Bluff). From there, you can enjoy views across Foveaux Strait to Dog Island Lighthouse, Ruapuku Island and Stewart Island/Rakiura. If you have a coastal outing in mind when planning your trip, this route has a clearly described character and specific viewpoints.
The Glory Track is a bush walking trail with views across Foveaux Strait to Rakiura Stewart Island and Dog Island Lighthouse. It also passes a World War II gun emplacement and observation bunker. The walk therefore combines landscape views with visible traces of history. You can choose between the Foveaux Walkway and the Glory Track based on what you’re looking for: one follows the coast on a well-formed track, while the other leads through bush and passes the two wartime structures.
At Omaui Reserve, a 1.5 km loop track winds through regenerating coastal bush to an elevated viewing platform. The circular route and stated distance give the outing a clearly defined shape; along the way, the focus is on the track through the vegetation, with elevated views at the end. The area also has a layered history: Omaui was first a Māori settlement and later a European whaling station, pilot station and quarantine camp.
Gardens, local food and choosing what to do
Queens Park invites you to stroll through lush greenery and several distinctive gardens. Bluff, meanwhile, is known for its Bluff oysters. These offer a different focus from vehicle history and walking trails: gardens and strolls appeal to nature lovers, while oysters provide a culinary connection to Bluff. When planning your trip, you can take different preferences within your group into account without assuming that everyone wants the same kind of outing.
There is also practical travel information for Bill Richardson Transport World: it is near local bus services, and taxis can be arranged from the gift shop. If a visit is important to your plans, this is a useful tip for getting to that particular destination.
For further information, see the destination pages for Invercargill and Bluff.
For the broader travel overview: Southland.
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