OUR HISTORY

HIGH COUNTRY HORSES

High Country Horses is the original Horse Trekking business in the Wakatipu Basin and has offered both experience and beginner riders an opportunity to explore some of the finest riding country in the world since 1985.

Deana Insley bought High Country Horses in 2004 and with her late husband and a great team of staff has built this business into what has been rated one of the best horse trekking businesses in New Zealand. 

Horses have always been an important part of Glenorchy’s history and where a lifeline for those who lived and worked here.  All of the high country stations still use horses today to muster their sheep and cattle and they have also been an integral part of the scheelite mining, logging, and transport.