Shotover Country
Shotover Country is a suburb of Queenstown in the South Island of New Zealand.
Shotover Country is a suburb of Queenstown in the South Island of New Zealand.
It has around 810 sections and was originally 202 hectares when first rezoned from rural to residential.
The suburb began in 2012 when sections first came up for sale. The postcode of Shotover Country is listed as Lower Shotover.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Shotover Country
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Lake Hayes
Lake Hayes is a small lake in the Wakatipu Basin in Central Otago, in New Zealand's South Island. It is located close to the towns of Arrowtown and Queenstown.
3.4 km · lake in New Zealand · Wikipedia - 02Lake Johnson
Lake Johnson is a small lake near the suburb of Frankton in Queenstown in the South Island of New Zealand. It has no inflow or outflow and is classified as a glacial lake.
3.2 km · lake in New Zealand · Wikipedia
Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Shotover Country
- Airports
- Queenstown (ZQN), 2 km
- Stations
- Queenstown Airport, 3 km
- Christchurch → Shotover Country348 km · quickest by air, 3h 57m · NZ$140–210
- Wellington → Shotover Country638 km · quickest by air, 5h 55m · NZ$170–260
- Auckland → Shotover Country1037 km · quickest by air, 5h 20m · NZ$240–370
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Shotover Country
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Shotover Country. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inQueenstown Airport also provides for private jets and other aircraft, and there is a huge number of helicopter take-offs and landings each day.
- Get inTaxis into town cost about $35-45 while Supershuttle shared vans will take you straight to your accommodation for $26 for one or two people (Mar 2019).
- Get inNational sightseeing tour operator GreatSights New Zealand has daily tour options to Queenstown from Christchurch via Mt Cook and operates daily services to the West Coast including (Fox Glacier Franz Josef and Greymouth).
- Get aroundThere are a number of tour operators to be found in the CBD of Queenstown.
- Get aroundTransport from Queenstown's CBD to adventure activities is often part of the tour package.
From Wikivoyage: Queenstown (New Zealand), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Shotover Country – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Shotover Country
- Franktonsuburb of Queenstown, New Zealand3.3 km
- Quail Risesuburb of Queenstown in Queenstown-Lakes District Council, New Zealand1.5 km