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Narrated by The Drifter 67 km · about 65 min · 14 stories

Over the Crown Range through Central Otago: the gold rush of the 1860s, the Chinese miners' settlement at Arrowtown, the drowned streets of Cromwell under Lake Dunstan, the Cardrona Hotel's false front, and the bra fence nobody will claim responsibility for.

The stories

In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.

  1. 1
    Queenstown, Otago

    The Naming of Edith Cavell Bridge

  2. 2
    Queenstown, Otago

    The Otago Gold Rush Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3

  3. 3
    Queenstown, Otago

    The Otago Gold Rush Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3

  4. 4
    Queenstown, Otago

    The Otago Gold Rush Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3

  5. 5
    Queenstown, Otago

    The Arrowtown Chinese Settlement

  6. 6
    Queenstown, Otago

    The Engineering of Lake Dunstan

  7. 7
    Cromwell, Otago

    The Crown Range Road

  8. 8
    Wānaka, Otago

    The Relocated Streets of Cromwell

  9. 9
    Wānaka, Otago

    The Cardrona Bra Fence

  10. 10
    Wānaka, Otago

    The Cardrona Hotel False Front

  11. 11
    Wānaka, Otago

    The Shifting Shores of Wānaka Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3

  12. 12
    Wānaka, Otago

    The Shifting Shores of Wānaka Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3

  13. 13
    Wānaka, Otago

    The Shifting Shores of Wānaka Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3

  14. 14
    Wānaka, Otago

    The Origins of Puzzling World

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Where the stories come from

Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.