New Zealand · QUAD BIKES
The 14 best quad bike tours you can book today, with what each costs, how long it runs and who it suits. Number one is top for a reason; start there.
Meet your guide at 61A Shotover Street, then ride a quad bike through a private 650-acre park near Queenstown. After safety practice, you’ll tackle rocky trails and hill climbs with guides such as Stefan, Ollie, Scott, or Lloyd. Gear, wet-weather clothing, transfers, and photos are included.
“Happened to be a small group. The trials and riding were super fun. The views on the top were outstanding. Good equipment.”
Drive a fully automatic 400cc 4WD quad bike across exclusive Queenstown Hill tracks. Guides such as Nico, Phoebe, Ben, and Matt provide careful training, adapt routes to your confidence, and stop for hot chocolate, biscuits, or banana bread with wide mountain views.
“Great experience with an amazing guide. Everything well organised, safety and basic quad biking course before you go off road biking. Group split into two teams according to your confidence and experience in quad biking. 100% recommend!”
Spend about two hours riding single or double quad bikes, or a three-seat buggy, through rainforest, shallow rivers, and an old glacier riverbed near Franz Josef. Guides such as Jason, Brooklyn, Benji, and Amy teach beginners, provide wet-weather gear, and take photos for free.
“Good fun experience. The guide gave some interesting information about the area. We were a group of 6. Bikes were easy to handle.”
Ride a fully automatic 400cc 4WD quad bike around private Queenstown Hill trails with guides such as Phoebe, Jordan, Benjamin, and Nico. Expect full training, waterproof gear, routes matched to your ability, photo stops, views over Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu, refreshments, and central hotel pickup.
“Fantastic team, fun ride, great views! Make sure you take some gloves, it gets fresh up there. Highly recommend”
Drive your own automatic 450cc Can-Am quad through Jurassic rainforest tracks, glacier-carved riverbeds, creeks, and rough West Coast terrain. Guides such as Karl, Mitch, Rosie, Tayla, and Nick have earned strong praise for safety and encouragement. Wet-weather gear, gumboots, helmets, and free photos are included.
“Awesome fun! Fantastic activity and so much fun. Our tour guide was a legend, loved that he took photos of us throughout the tour. 2 hour ride was great value for money, highly recommend!”
Drive your own quad bike from Cable Bay Adventure Park through farmland and native forest to views over Cable Bay. Guides such as Harry, Georgia, Fletcher, and Cortez provide patient instruction and local stories. Choose a 90-minute farm ride or a 2.5-hour Bayview circuit.
“Loved our guide. He was informative and took breaks throughout. We were lucky to go right after it rained so it was fun to drive through puddles! It was foggy when we went but I’m sure on a clear day the views would have been stunning! This is inside the Cable Bay area which is stunning and has lots of animals too! This tour is the short tour but upon our arrival they also offered a longer tour that we could choose and paid the difference. So worth it!”
At Hanmer Springs Attractions, you’ll learn to handle an automatic or manual quad bike, then follow a guide through forest, creek crossings, riverbeds, and farmland. Overalls, boots, and a helmet are supplied. Riders aged 16 and over can drive, and two-seater bikes suit passengers.
“We are in our mid 60's and really enjoyed the quad bikes. After a practice track to give us confidence we set off on an amazing trek through forest, stream gulleys and crossed rivers. Stopped by a river for water and a cookie. Helmets and wRead more”
At Cable Bay Adventure Park near Nelson, you’ll learn to handle a quad bike, then ride 14 kilometers through native forest, farmland, and up to Cable Bay views. Guides such as Fletcher, Connor, Thayla, and Luke are praised for clear instruction and a relaxed manner. Under-16s can ride as passengers.
“A thoroughly enjoyable tour with good quad biking, our guide Fletcher was very good and knowledgable, good views of the bay, very dusty by the time we had finished but all part of the fun”
Spend about two hours riding single or twin-seat quad bikes across a working farm near Hanmer Springs. Pete or another Amuri Jet Adventures guide gives a full briefing and practice run before leading you over muddy tracks, creeks, hills, and viewpoints above the river canyon. No experience is required, and children can ride as passengers.
“It was an 'out of the world's super amazing experience. Our instructor and guide was Darryl who we as fantastic and he made it so memorable. Highly recommended :) :) :)”
Take control of a 4WD quad bike on Hanmer Springs back roads, dirt trails, river crossings, farms, sheep tracks, and bush. An English-speaking guide leads this small-group ride of up to 10 people. Drivers must be at least 16, and no hotel transfer is included.
“Memorable! It was raining and it made the track challenging.”
You’ll ride an automatic Yamaha 350 to 450cc quad bike through Cardrona Valley with an English-speaking guide and up to five other riders. Expect a safety briefing, tailored off-road trails, mountain views, rivers, farm animals, and local stories. Heated grips and 4WD help in cold, changeable weather.
“Nous nous sommes aventurés au travers de chemin somptueux au décor idyllique . Nous fûmes déboussolé par ce paysage. La faune et la flore était magnifique. Superbe expérience à faire”
Ride your own sports quad through a private 650-acre park just outside Queenstown. After training, guides such as Snowy, Diego or Stefan tailor the hour to your ability, leading you over hill climbs, forest trails and creek crossings to views of Lake Wakatipu, Queenstown and Coronet Peak.
“The thorough but not patronising training was fantastic, felt in very safe hands with our guide Snowy who gave us so much confidence. Would highly recommend this activity. Amazing views from the top, and an amazing sense of achievement when you reach the top. Also big shout out to Snowy for the photos he took of us. 😁”
You’ll ride a quad bike through Hanmer Springs countryside, then paddle the Waiau Gorge on grade II white water. Guides such as Daniel, Sam, Maddie, and Tully are praised for clear instruction and good humor. Safety gear is supplied, but expect to get wet. Quad riders must be at least 16.
“Great experience. We took our 4 year old jet boating and she had a blast. Customer service was good so much so we stopped a week later on our return at the cafe and the staff remembered how I took my tea.”
Spend three hours at Hanmer Springs combining a Hamilton jet spin and more than 30 kilometres of jetboating with a two-hour guided quad-bike ride. Daniel, Hunter, and Luke are among the named crew. Expect safety gear, river crossings, mud, dust, and a small group capped at 10.
“Jet boating was great fun, good duration and great scenery along the river. The quad biking also travelled through picturesque landscape, and was enjoyable, however the pace was a little slow, no doubt catering for inexperienced riders and with a focus on safety.”
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