Gore
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Understand
Named after Governor Gore Browne, the town is a service center for the surrounding district.
Get in
By bus
There are bus services from Dunedin to Invercargill as well as to Queenstown and other places in the southern lakes district.
By car
Gore is about 2.5 hours by road south from Dunedin, along State Highway 1.
By plane
See
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address: Corner Hokonui Drive & Norfolk StreetIncludes the Ralph Hotere Gallery, which holds more than 60 works by this major New Zealand artist. Also the John Money Collection of New Zealand, aboriginal Australian and West African art. Housed in a former Carnegie Library building.
Hands of FameA statue celebrating country music. It has a number of hand prints of country music artists, including Kenny Rogers.
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address: Corner Hokonui Drive and Norfolk StreetIncludes the Hokonui Moonshine Museum and the Gore Historical Museum. The Moonshine Museum celebrates the district's historical illicit whiskey making. The Historical Museum includes an exhibition about trout fishing. Also has visitor information desk Mon-Sat.
- Trout statue. A large sculpture of a brown trout at the northern entrance to the town.
Do
- Gold Guitar Awards. Country music awards at Queen’s Birthday Weekend.
- Trout fishing.