Deer Park Heights Queenstown
Hilltop deer farm and self-drive animal park with hand-feeding and sweeping lake and mountain views.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Deer Park Heights in Queenstown goes back to the nineteen sixties, when a farming couple bought a hill above Lake Whakatipu and heard a blunt local verdict about what it would take to bring sightseers up it. It follows Frank and Jean Mee, a dirt road, a government licence and a herd of deer caught from the wild. Best heard with the lake below you and a two-dollar coin in your pocket.
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