Gore

Gore is a town of 8,200 people (2020) in the Southland region of New Zealand that is known as the world's capital of brown trout fishing, and New Zealand's capital of country music. It is on State Highway 1 about an hour's drive from Invercargill.

Understand

Named after Governor Gore Browne, the town is a service centre for the surrounding district.

Visitor information

Get in

By bus

There are bus services from Dunedin to Invercargill as well as to Queenstown and other places in the southern lakes district.

Intercity buses from Dunedin or Invercargill stop at the bus stop in front of the visitor centre.

By car

Gore is about 2.5 hours by road south from Dunedin, along State Highway 1.

By plane

Get around

Gore is a small town so you can walk around it. If you’d go out of the town but doesn’t have your own vehicle, then you can grab a taxi via calling +6432081243 (MT Taxi Gore). If your mobile phone plan is data only, you can go to the visitor centre and ask the staff there to call a taxi for you.

See

Trout statue in town centre
  • 🌍 Eastern Southland Gallery, 14 Hokonui Drive (Corner Hokonui Drive & Norfolk Street). M-F 10AM-4:30PM, Sa Su 1-4PM. Includes the Ralph Hotere Gallery, which holds more than 60 works by this major New Zealand artist. Also the John Money Collection of New Zealand, Aboriginal Australian and West African art. Housed in a former Carnegie Library building. Free. (updated Jan 2025)
  • Hands of Fame. A statue celebrating country music. It has a number of hand prints of country music artists, including Kenny Rogers. 
  • Hokonui Heritage Centre, Corner Hokonui Drive and Norfolk Street. M-F 8.30AM-5PM, Sa 9:30AM-4PM, Su 1-4PM. Includes the Hokonui Moonshine Museum and the Gore Historical Museum. The Moonshine Museum celebrates the district's historical illicit whiskey making. The Historical Museum includes an exhibition about trout fishing. Also has visitor information desk M-Sa. Historical Museum free, charge for Moonshine Museum.. 
  • 🌍 Trout statue. A large sculpture of a brown trout at the entrance to the town. (updated Jun 2021)
  • 🌍 Old Fire Station, 19 Hokonui Drive. Old fire station of the town. Later it became a hostel for backpackers and now vape stores. This historic building can still be viewed outside. (updated Jan 2025)

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Go next

Routes through Gore
Dunedin ← Milton ←  E  S  → Mataura → Invercargill
Te Anau ←  NW  SE  → End


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