Reefton Travel Guides
Self Drive From Reefton to Christchurch, Nelson, Westport and other destinations.

Drive from Reefton to the following destinations,

Drive Reefton to Greymouth
Drive Reefton to Hokitika
Drive Reefton to Nelson
Drive Reefton to Westport

Reefton

Reefton is a picturesque town full of history. Known as the "the Town of Light" it was the first town in the southern hemisphere to have a public supply of electricity, even before many of the more fashionable suburbs of London and New York.

Established about 1870 Reefton has its beginning like most other places on the West Coast, with the discovery of gold bearing quartz reefs in the late 1860s. It is these Reefs that gave the town its name.

Proudly part of the Buller District, that incorporates the northern West Coast from Punakaiki north to Karamea, Reefton remains a unique mining town one of the few where gold is still won from the surrounding district.