Cromwell, New Zealand Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

East of Arrowtown, SH6 runs for 40km through the scenic Kawarau Gorge, past the Goldfields Mining Centre, to CROMWELL , a dull, flat little service town with its gold-mining roots waterlogged below the shimmering surface of the Lake Dunstan reservoir. Formed by the Clyde Dam 20km downstream, Lake Dunstan swamped much of Cromwell's historic core, and the present-day town centre is uninspiringly modern. Civic boosters hope that the crisp, dry climate, ever-increasing number of wineries, fruit orchards, water-borne leisure activities and the fact that it's on Otago Central Rail Trail will lure … more »