In every guide, you can find information about a city park. A tourist, visiting various cities, will flip through the page without reading a line. But do not refuse to come to Queens Park in Invercargill.

Once you come through the gates of Feldwick, the main entrance to the park from the Gala Street side, the rest of the world disappears and stays outside that place. A wide path leads through a gorgeous alley of English beeches and silver birches. It is known as Coronation Alley and connects all parts of the park. History and nature merge into an organic whole there. The alley runs along the orchestra rotunda, the central point of the park, and ends on Herbert Street.

The Feldwick Gate, the Thomson sculpture and the orchestra rotunda turn the park into a museum of architecture and an art gallery. But everything is filled with harmony. Nature and buildings are organically intertwined.

Gardens and sculptures enliven the forest area. There you can see the pristine ferns, mosses, trees, and wildflowers. The Northwest Arch, the dial of the direction and strength of the wind, is made with the materials of the park. Like the installation of stumps, roots, logs, and damaged sleepers. Everybody can see something in it, the only limitation is imagination.

The park has a long history. Earlier, it was a pasture and an agricultural exhibition place. Now it is a nature reserve. In the farmhouse, you can see animals, listen to some entertaining lectures about them. Rabbits, guinea pigs, geese, ducks, chicken and guinea fowls live together with a wallaby, alpaca, and ostrich. 

Queens Park is a wonderland for children. There is a lot of space for outdoor games and world exploring, a playground, a water park, and a hydraulic swing.

The park can be interesting for sportsmen. The golf club has an 18-hole field. Among the trees and flowers, you can play croquet and bowling, do sports on a four-kilometer fitness track or tennis courts located close to the museum.

That park is a perfect place for those who want to take a break from the rush and be somewhere where time or space does not exist.