Jackson’s Retreat Alpine Holiday Park – Your gateway to the Wild West Coast
There’s so much to see and do at Jackson’s Retreat Alpine Holiday Park!
Tena koutou ma nga mihi – Hello welcome and thank you for choosing Jackson’s Retreat to be part of your South Island holiday adventure. We are here to advise, assist and care to ensure you have a memorable stay with us.
Manaakitanga – sharing exceptional and natural hospitality, knowledge and beliefs based on mutual respect between host and visitor.
Click a link below to find out more about each activity or event you can get involved in when staying with us!
Sunset at the park
Sunset @ The Park We might not have a West Coast ocean sunset to boast of but when our surrounding mountains go through the change of light and Mt Alexandra with her snow-capped peak catching the sunset and turning pink, all are a truly magical sight for the eyes and ...
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Wild Food Festival – only 67 kms from Jackson’s Retreat!
A West Coast Tradition Wild Food Festival – The name says it all! Only 67 km's from Jackson's Retreat Back in 1990 a Hokitika woman Claire Bryant instigated the very first celebration of local wild foods. Her wine cellar was very well stocked with a home brew of West Coast ...
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Ngarimu Walking Track
Walk through the bush Tent Sites to the Rain Forest bush line and you’ll find….. Track : Quartz Mine Site – 3 hours return trip, Take a beautiful Rain Forest bush walk then zig-zag up the abandoned Battery Road to the site of a historic Quartz Mine where quartz was ...
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Glow worms
Glow Worm Dells – a fun night-time adventure! We have 4 sites to check out! Did you know - the light from a glow worm comes from an organ which is the equivalent of a human kidney! These little glowing wonders of nature can be seen along the creek banks ...
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Local flora and fauna
Jackson's Retreat is lucky to share the home of an extensive range of native birds. Many of our native birds are critical for dispersing seeds and pollination of native trees. Kereru, which was protected from hunting in 1922, also known as Wood Pigeon spread the seeds of trees with large ...
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Around Lake Brunner Cycle Race
Around Lake Brunner Cycle Race - only a 20min drive from Jackson's Retreat to the start line! Around Brunner started as a 130km sealed circuit cycle ride taking you through some of the most stunning scenery New Zealand has to offer. In 2015 the Enduro, 2 laps of the traditional ...
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Kathmandu Coast 2 Coast
Next Race - 11 & 12 February 2022 Book your Accommodation now! Kathmandu Coast 2 Coast – The Coast to Coast has become almost a right of passage for multisport athletes from around the world with over 20,000 people having completed the event in the 38 years to date. Being ...
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Hiking, Cycling & Trails for feet and wheels
The Bald Range - our southern range Rangi Taipo has an altitude of 1400m, widely tramped to the Kelly Range and up to Arthurs Pass. There is a beautiful river & bush trail for both feet & wheels along the Taipo River approx 5min drive West of our Park. Mt ...
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Skiing on the Southern Alps
SKIING ON THE SOUTHERN ALPS – Jackson's Retreat back yard! Temple Basin Ski Field – 20 min drive East of Jackson's Retreat https://www.templebasin.co.nz Ungroomed ski and snowboarder's paradise in Arthur's Pass National Park, New Zealand. Craigieburn Valley Ski Area – 1hr drive East of Jackson's Retreat. Located in the heart ...
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Arthur’s Pass
Arthurs Pass - The township and the pass are named after Sir Arthur Dudley Dobson (1841–1934). Arthur Dobson had been tasked by the Chief Surveyor, Thomas Cass, to find out if there was an available pass out of the Waimakariri watershed into valleys running to the West Coast. In 1864, ...
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Lake Brunner
Lake Brunner is the largest lake in the northwestern South Island of New Zealand, covering an area of 40 km². The lake's outflow is the Arnold River, a tributary of the Grey River. The lake lies 31 kilometres to the southeast of Greymouth. The main settlement close to the lake ...
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Our Tiaki promise
Our Tiaki promise -To care for the People & The Place KAUPAPA - A set of values, principles and a plan which people have agreed on as a foundation for their actions KAITIAKITANGA - The relationship between everything and everybody in the natural world – there is no distinction between ...
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Aquatic Life – pristine & crystal clear
Humphries Creek has friendly eels which you can feed and keep an eye out for the local adult Inanga. The annual whitebait (inanga) migration was an important mahinga kai resource for Māori all around Aotearoa. Adult Inanga were also taken during their downstream migration to the ocean when they were ...
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Stargazing at the Jacksons Retreat
Astrophotographers and Star Gazers Paradise – The South Island of New Zealand has the largest Dark Sky reserves anywhere on planet Earth! Find a peaceful spot around the campgrounds to set up and gaze upward for a rewarding view, if the night is cloudy pop down to one of the ...
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Jack’s Mill Schoolhouse
History and culture – Visit Jack's Mill School at Kotuku (30 minutes via Lake Brunner road) one of the quirkiest sites on the West Coast, a historic miniature bungalow designed, built and furnished entirely by the Kotuku school children aged 10-12 years. The Kotuku school was opened c1909 in the ...
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Jackson’s Retreat Alpine Holiday Park
West Coasts Unique Holiday Accommodation
Come and stay at Jackson’s Retreat Alpine Holiday Park and enjoy a range of West Coast events. Find out more about our unique West Coast holiday accommodation.