Queenstown Public Gardens

With great foresight the early settlers designated the lakeside promontory a reserve in 1867. Two oaks, planted then, are still growing today near the entrance. The Queenstown gardens are very handy to the town and a popular place for visitors to stroll beside the lake. What gives such pleasure in these gardens is walking among so many fine trees. Stately specimens of white fir, Douglas fir, white cedar, Deodar cedar, West Himalayan spruce, Ponderosa pine and Dawn redwood, to name but a few, stand tall against a dazzling backdrop of sparkling lake and snow-capped peaks A wine and food festival is held in the Queenstown Gardens in March. A vast slab of rock commemorates Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his officers who died on their return journey from the South Pole in 1912.