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.

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

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

Do

 * Gold Guitar Awards. Country music awards at Queen’s Birthday Weekend in early June.
 * Freeze ya bits off busking Busking competition on the King’s Birthday Weekend.
 * Trout fishing on the Mataura River. Gore is said to be the brown trout world capital.

Go next

 * Mataura