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Named after a large run holder, William Dansey, this once well-trodden pass through tussock country links the Maniototo Plains and the Waitaki Valley, that in turn links Mt Cook and the McKenzie Country to the east coast. The Pass is unsealed, narrow in places and can be closed by snow during winter.

The area of Danseys Pass on the Maniototo side was centre of the relatively successful Kyeburn River dredging and gold diggings. While the landscape tells a story of furious activity, the only substantial building remaining is the Danseys (sic) Pass Coach Inn. When it was built in 1862 it serve a community of 2000. Now it offers Rail Trailers and other visitors to Central Otago wonderful peace and solitude. Behind the hotel is German Creek Reserve where miners planted trees representing their homelands.

A 1917 photograph of a dredge operating on the Upper Kyeburn Photo: Hocken Collection, Uare Taoka o Hakena, University of Otago	Danseys Pass Coaching Inn - Early View
Danseys Pass Coaching Inn as it is today

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