{"id":2685,"date":"2019-11-27T18:07:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T23:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/?p=2685"},"modified":"2025-08-07T15:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T19:56:08","slug":"queenstown-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/queenstown-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Queenstown Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After our morning hike\/walk around Lake Alta, we wanted to get out and stretch our legs a bit more. This walk was a great option. And while its name suggests something small, compared to say, Queenstown Mountain, or Queenstown Summit, this walk amounted to about 1500ft elevation gain over about 2 miles &#8211; not insignificant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we’d been experiencing, NZ had many “big bang for the buck” hikes – Queenstown Hill was no exception. The trailhead was literally in a neighborhood not far from our AirBnB.<\/p>\n\n\n

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and while not much from a distance and elevation perspective, we were quickly out of the town environs, and following easy paths through some woods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here, passing hikers (likely including some kids) had some fun with cairns – creating something of a cairn garden! <\/p>\n\n\n

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As we continued onward, gaining a bit of elevation, we shortly left the trees and were treated to some amazing views of Queenstown!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Along the way, we stopped at the Basket of Dreams – a sculpture to commerate the millenium. Set in an open area, with commanding views of Queenstown, the sculpture seemed to inspire meditation similar to a labyrinth.<\/p>\n\n\n

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After our morning hike\/walk around Lake Alta, we wanted to get out and stretch our legs a bit more. This walk was a great option. And while its name suggests something small, compared to say, Queenstown Mountain, or Queenstown Summit, this walk amounted to about 1500ft elevation gain over about 2 miles &#8211; not insignificant. As we’d been experiencing, NZ had many “big bang for the buck” hikes – Queenstown Hill was no exception. The trailhead was literally in aRead More →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"category-hiking.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2685"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4808,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions\/4808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}