Queenstown Gardens

Queenstown Gardens
Entrance to Gardens on Park Street
Type	Botanic gardens
Location	Queenstown, New Zealand
Coordinates	45°02′16″S 168°39′35″E / 45.037704°S 168.659836°E / -45.037704; 168.659836
Area	14.75 hectares (36.4 acres)
Created	1867 (1867)[1]
Operated by	Queenstown Lakes District Council
Open	All year

The Queenstown Gardens, located next to the town of Queenstown, New Zealand, is a botanical garden which contains a variety of exotic and native trees and plants as well as a large pond and a range of facilities. The facilities in the garden include a children's playground, tennis, lawn bowls, skate boarding, BMX biking, skating, Parkrun, disc golf and ice skating/ice hockey. In winter for about four days it becomes the site of the LUMA Southern Lights Festival.

There is a variety of trails in the garden with views of the surrounding mountains and of Lake Wakatipu and the Frankton Arm as well as Queenstown itself.

The most visible large tree species in the garden is that of the Douglas fir of which there are many large specimens. This tree also forms a protective forest that surrounds much of the gardens. There is also a Rose Garden just past the tennis court.