# 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

* Visitor info from Gore District Council
* -46.09737168.945871 Gore Visitor Centre, 16 Hokonui Dr, goreinfo@goredc.govt.nz. M-F 9AM-5PM. Serves as a souvenir shop and a connection point for bus travel. (updated Aug 2024)

## 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

* -46.098168.945991 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..
* -46.09863168.947242 Trout statue. A large sculpture of a brown trout at the entrance to the town. (updated Jun 2021)
* -46.097313168.9451873 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)

## Do

* Gold Guitar Awards. Country music awards at King’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.

## Buy

* -46.099529168.9459921 CrossRoad Cycles, 21 Main Street, ☏ +6432089891. A bicycle shop where you can hire bicycles. (updated Jan 2025)

## Eat

* -46.1168.94541 Cafe Ambience, 51 Main St, ☏ +64 3-208 5888. (updated Nov 2021)
* -46.1001168.9442 The Green Room Cafe, 59 Irk St, ☏ +64 3-208 1005. (updated Nov 2021)

## Sleep

* -46.08385168.936411 Heartland Hotel Croyden, 100 Waimea Street. Scenic group hotel set in 6 acres. (updated Jun 2021)
* -46.09218168.944622 ASURE Oakleigh Motel. 9 unit motel. (updated Jun 2021)
* -46.1101168.93633 Gore Motor Camp, 35 Broughton Street. Cabins and pitches for tents and campervans. (updated Jun 2021)

## Go next

* Mataura