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| Whatever the time of year, it's always the right time to experience the Otago Central Rail Trail. This is New Zealand where in spring you get to cycle or walk through a picture postcard landscape of orchards in blossom. Wrap up and venture onto the trail in winter knowing that not far ahead a pub's roaring fire and southern hospitality awaits to warm the cockles. Slip, slop, slap and make the trail a summer holiday as you leisurely meander past Napa coloured tussocks. Visit us during autumn and be prepared to be stunned by Central's famous red-leafed armies of majestic poplars. |
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Autumn:
When green turns to gold and leaves fall to carpet the trail, autumn is a colourful fanfare to the approaching winter. It's a time on the Rail Trail when after chilly morning temperatures, days can be warm and evenings cool enough for fires to be stoked and electric blankets switched on. For cyclists on the trail, autumn is all about the fun of dressing in layers to divest as you go. |
Winter:
Winter is a favourite trail season for many. Wrap up well and journey through a landscape that depending on good luck can look as though its has been sprayed with white sparkle paint. A magical phenomenon called hoar-frost. Then again your luck may conjure up stunning still days where between dawn and dusk not a single cloud ventures onto the blue. Winter on the trail is best enjoyed as a few hours a day allowing plenty of time for reading, chilling out and relaxing in front of roaring fires in the company of friends old and new.
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Spring:
What better time for waking up the senses and lifting spirits than the Rail Trail in spring. On seeing you approach, it's as though trailside willows and poplars hurriedly pull on cloaks of vivid green. At the same time, shrubs and fruit trees vie for your attention, staging their own private blossom festival. Spring on the Rail Trail is also an experience with its own pastoral soundtrack lead by the chorus of new-born lambs and their fussing mothers.
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Summer:
Summer on the rail trail is anything but muggy and energy-sapping. Or for that matter, crowded. No traffic. No noise. No pressure. This is as close as it gets in New Zealand to a desert climate. Sunny days free from humidity and nights so cool and comfortable, sleep comes easy. Lying exactly halfway between the equator and the south Pole, Rail Trail summers are all about long relaxing evenings where even after 10 o'clock, glasses can be raised in salute to the setting sun.
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This page of all seasons is sponsored by...
| Adventure South |
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| Kokonga Lodge. |
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| Off the Rails |
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| Omakau Commercial Hotel |
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| Trail Journeys |
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