I used to joke with my old friend Gary who lived here, about Rantartica but over the 4 days we spent in the new NZMCA park here in Ranfurly, the temperature ranged during the day between 24 and 26 degrees every day. Beautiful blue skies with only one morning with a bit of drizzle.

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Stunning weather and a lovely town.

The people are really friendly and the buildings are amazing.

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The NZMCA Park. Dave and Therese’s caravan on the left. Rafe on the right.

Bins, checkpoint Charlie and the water.

In the grounds of the railway station

The Railway Station

The famous Ranfurly pub

Railway station and Rail Trail

Vintage Tractor Museum

The Tea rooms.. great building

Rafe with the awning out in the heat of Ranfurly

Around the time of the war, the town was struck badly by a string of suspicious fires where a significant number of iconic buildings were burnt to the ground.

At the time, money was scarce and the cheapest and quickest way to replace them was to do the Art Deco style. The town is blessed with these lovely old buildings with some real class.

The drizzly day we had was when the town had its market day at the railway station and it was just great to see the whole town come out to play, even in the dreary weather. It was only shortlived and an hour two later, there was brilliant sunshine again.

We were originally only going to stay for two nights but its such a great place to stay so we stayed for four! The NZMCA park is right in the middle of town and is huge.

We’ll definitely be staying here again.