People jumping into a lake from a wooden dock, surrounded by rocky hills and mountains under a partly cloudy sky.

Welcome
to St Bathans

Come and stay

An an increasingly popular tourist destination, there are a range of places to stay, from the DOC managed camping ground, through to a whole house.

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A rocky hillside beside a lake with a large white rock formation at the water's edge and sparse vegetation on the hillside under a blue sky.

come and play

There isn’t a month of the year in St Bathans that doesn’t bring with it unique beauty.

With an extreme climate and blue-bird days, St Bathans is a tiny town with a big history, drawing in photographers, travellers and intrepid ice-swimmers from far and wide.

A snowy scene of a small town with a vintage car parked outside a hotel called Volcano Hotel. Snow blankets the ground, bushes, and tree branches. The hotel has a stone and wood exterior with a sign and outdoor seating, and a large snow-covered tree frames the scene.

Photo by Grahame Sydney