A private nature reserve like no other

Claremont’s guests have access to our farm within an enchanted valley in the foothills of the Southern Alps, the like of which you most surely have never seen!

Our 2,400 acre estate is both a working high country sheep and deer station and a unique, private nature reserve. The property is flanked by two rivers intertwined with craggy escarpments, precipitous gorges, pretty waterfalls, amazing rock formations, ancient boulders and rolling farmland.

Intertwined with braided rivers, craggy escarpments, precipitous gorges, pretty waterfalls, amazing rock formations, ancient boulders and rolling farmland, our 2,400 acre estate is both a working high country sheep and deer station and a unique, private nature reserve.

This ancient landscape includes the intriguing 65 million years old “God´s marbles” Here is also one of the few sites in the world where the “KT boundary” is clearly visible.

This relatively recent discovery formed a crucial part of the evidence as to the cause of the mass extinction causing the end of the dinosaur period. Claremont was the first place in New Zealand where significant fossils were discovered. Plesiosaur’s, Mosasaur’s and the world’s oldest penguins have all been found in our riverbed.

Last, but not least, within Claremont’s private nature reserve you’ll find abundant bird-life as well as some seventy species of rare and endangered plants. There’s a conservation area where you’ll see protected native Black Beech, hosts to “honey dew”, undisturbed native New Zealand bush.

A stay in the lodge provides the opportunity to participate and discover the amazing secrets of this remarkable nature reserve through our exhilarating fun-filled morning's Land Rover “Safari” adventure - You can also walk, hike or, by prior arrangement take a guided horseback ride over the estate.