Hokitika Beach

If you get hungry, there are many great restaurants near Hokitika Beach.  Ocean View Restaurant serves delicious seafood, meat, poultry, vegetarian, and vegan dishes.  Stumpers Bar & Cafe is a beachfront restaurant that serves delicious soups, salads, burgers, pasta, seafood, ribs, meat, and poultry dishes. The Hokitika Sandwich Company - West Coast serves incredible sandwiches.  Korath Thai Cuisine serves incredible soups, noodles, fried rice, curries, seafood, and meat dishes.  If you are looking for another good and affordable restaurant nearby, Priya Indian Restaurant serves amazing curries, breads, meat, and poultry dishes.

If you are looking for hotels near Hokitika Beach, there are many great nearby options.  If you are looking for an upscale hotel, the 4-Star Bella Vista Hokitika Motel Accommodation offers a few amenities, including comfortable rooms and a kitchen in all rooms.  A more affordable hotel is the beachfront 4-Star Shining Star Beachfront Accommodation, which offers a few amenities including an outdoor seating area, a hot tub, a guest kitchen, and a barbecue grill facility.  Another moderately priced option is the oceanfront 4-Star Heritage Highway Motel, which offers many amenities including comfortable rooms, hot tubs, a kid’s play area, and a kitchen.  A more reasonably priced option is the 3-Star Beachfront Hotel Hokitika, which offers a few amenities, including comfortable rooms, a bar with a fireplace, and a restaurant.   If you are looking for another good and affordable hotel nearby, the oceanfront 3-Star Jade Court Motel offers many amenities, including comfortable rooms and a picnic area.

Hokitika Beach has several amenities, including seasonal lifeguards, restrooms, a life-saving club, a few restaurants, and hotels.

Hokitika Beach offers several fun activities, including swimming, sunbathing, beachcombing, snorkeling, camping, hiking, picnicking, and photography.  If you plan to go into the water, this beach is not considered safe for swimming due to strong waves and unpredictable rip currents.  Hikers can enjoy the nearby West Coast Wilderness Trail, which offers unique insights into the local biodiversity.  The beach is an ideal place for fishing, where you may catch kahawai and rig (lemonfish).  Visitors may spot seals and dolphins swimming offshore.  This beach is known for its natural beauty, rugged, untamed coastline with black sand and driftwood scattered along the shore.  The beach has sand dunes that change shape over time due to strong wind and waves, which bring in more driftwood.  Hokitika Beach is famous for its large amounts of driftwood, which visitors and locals use to create unique sculptures.  Also, the iconic "Hokitika" sign on the beach is made of driftwood, which is a popular spot to take photos.  This beach hosts many interesting events and festivals throughout the year, including the Hokitika Wildfoods Festival and the annual Driftwood & Sand Festival, where artists gather on the beach to create driftwood sculptures as part of this unique event.  Visitors may experience unpredictable weather, with frequent rain and strong coastal winds.  Dogs are allowed if they are on a leash, and the beach is open from sunrise until sunset.

Hokitika Beach does not offer an access path for people with disabilities.

Getting to Hokitika Beach is easy - the beach has many parking spots near 72 Beach Street, Hokitika 7810, New Zealand, which provide easy access to the beach.

Hokitika was a major gold mining town in the 1860s, and remnants of its past can still be seen near the beach.  The beach has seen multiple shipwrecks in the past due to rough seas and strong currents.

Hokitika is famous for its greenstone (pounamu), which can occasionally be found on the beach, and there are many local stores near the beach that sell handcrafted greenstone jewelry and sculptures.

There are many attractions near Hokitika Beach.  Hokitika Gorge is renowned for its vivid turquoise waters, which come from glacial meltwater mixed with finely ground rock particles.  The gorge is accessible via a well-maintained trail that leads through native bush, across a suspension bridge, and to several viewing platforms that provide panoramic views of the gorge and river below.  Glow Worm Dell is a small cave that has no entry fee, which offers a magical experience where visitors can see thousands of tiny glowworms lighting up the darkness like a starry night, creating a magical and unique natural experience.  Hokitika Museum has a gallery displaying interesting exhibits, collections of fine art and historical objects, and thousands of archives and photographs on the local history of Hokitika town, including its gold mining heritage, the significance of jade to the Maori people, and early settler history.  In addition, it also has a clocktower, popularly known as the Hokitika Clock Tower, which was built as a war memorial in 1903.  
Lake Kaniere is a beautiful glacial lake surrounded by lush native rainforest and mountains and is considered one of the most beautiful lakes on the West Coast.  Visitors can enjoy many fun activities, including swimming, kayaking, paddleboarding, fishing, boating, hiking, and camping, making it a perfect getaway for nature lovers.  If you are looking for another nearby attraction, The West Coast Treetop Walk is a thrilling eco-adventure offering stunning views from a 20-meter-high and 450-meter-long steel walkway, a spiral viewing tower, and an exciting zipline ride through lush native rainforest over mature rimu trees.