Things to See and Do in Blackball and the West Coast

• Go into the old mine's ventilation chimney.
• Visit the Blackball Salami Shop. You can try some samples and then buy what you like.
• Blackball Bling and Kereru Crafts offer some handmade west coast goodies!
• Visit the Working Class History Museum next door.
• Tramp the Croesus track from Blackball to Barrytown or stay overnight at the Ces Clark or Garden Gully hut.
• Explore the tunnels under the town. You'll need a torch and gumboots.
• Go up the Moonlight Vallery (4WD required).
• View the old mine managers house/Blackball Community Centre (which is recorded as the South Islands most haunted building). You can park your camper van there too.
• See the gold dredge, the biggest in the southern hemisphere.
  

And Further Afield... 

• Punakaiki (blowholes, caves, canoeing etc - 60 minutes). 
• Nelson Creek (gold tunnels, pottery) - 20 minutes.
• Waiuta (ghost town) - 1 hour.
• Left Bank Art Gallery (local art) Greymouth - 20 minutes.
• Underworld rafting at Charleston - 80 minutes .
• Truman Track - 65 minutes.
• Point Elizabeth walkway - 20 minutes.
• Coal Creek falls - 25 minutes.
• Woods creek track - 50 minutes.
• Glaciers - 2 1/2 hours.
• Monteith's Brewery Tour - 20 minutes.
• Scenic flights to Glaciers.
• Moana kiwi house, Lake Brunner - 20 minutes
• On Yer Bike: NZ's Muddiest Offroad Adventures on Quads, Go karts, Hagglunds & Argo! Also Home to Little Earth Model Village, models of historical Waiuta and Reefton. 
• Shantytown - heritage park modelled after traditional gold mining towns.