Take a scenic journey around the Wakatipu Basin, from Queenstown, and visit the local film locations for the Lord of the Rings with the One Ring Trilogy Trail™. You will be driven by a professional driver guide and stop at each location site to take in the scenery and hear the stories of the filming.

This is a road tour where you will see such locations around the Queenstown area for the River Anduin (the Kawarau River Gorge and Bungi bridge), Argonath the Pillars of the Kings (the Kawarau River Gorge and Bungi bridge), Ford of Bruinen (the Arrow River) and Rohan (Penninsula Hill) and the battle ground of the Orcs and the members of the Fellowship at Amon Hen (Closeburn).

This is a great way to see the local area and would be especially good combined with one of the flight options.

• Allow 3 hours
• Morning or afternoon departures available
• Minimum 2 people for tour to leave.

The Glenorchy Air Two Ring Trilogy Trail™ is a local scenic flight that takes you to land at the lush forest areas at the head of the lake that were used to portray Lothlorien at Paradise, and Dunharrow at the Greenstone. Glenorchy Air flew cast and crew to these places and can tell you the stories of the filming.

Starting in Queenstown the Two Ring Trilogy Trail™ first stops at the head of Lake Wakatipu, at Paradise. This was a location for Lothlorien, the Battle of Amon Hen, and Isengard.

Taking off from Paradise the vistas are truly spectacular with glaciers such as the Earnslaw, Grant and Jura visible as you climb over the Dart river and Dan's Paddock, where Gandalf's Ride to Isengard was filmed.

From the Dart River Valley the tour arrives over the Greenstone Valley, the location of Dunharrow which features in the last film.

Another 10 minutes flying takes you over Mavora Lakes, the location of the settings such as: The Lawn of Parth Galen, the lake of Nen Hithoel and Amon Lhaw. After that it is on to one of the Rohan locations and then back to Queenstown but not before passing the location of Ithlien and another of the Rohan locations.

• Allow 2.5 hours total time - 1 hour flight time
• Morning or afternoon departures available
• Minimum 2 people for tour to leave.

This trail is for the Lord of the connoisseur. Journeying through the stark beauty of the central South Island. It includes three landing at major movie locations and lunch at the remote Mt Potts station.

The Three Ring Trilogy Trail™ lands at three separate places. The first location is the Rohan locations for Aragorn Gimli and Legolas's tracking of the Saruman's Orcs across the Plains of Rohan, the location for the burning Rohan village and the location for Aragorn's first meeting with Eomer. The second landing is at the Edoras location at Mt. Potts where the tour stops for lunch. The tour then lands right in the middle of the third location - Pelennor fields. This area near Twizel in the Mckenzie Country was also the location of the "Battle Before the Black Gates".

Not only will you see the the locations that feature in the film you will get to see New Zealand's Middle Earth in a way that is only possible from the air.

From the magnificent sweep of the Southern Alps that stretch south from Mt D'Archiac past  Mt Tasman and  Aoraki, Mt Cook  to as far south as Mt Aspiring (Tititea). As well as flying through the vast landscape of the Mckenzie basin and over the sky blue waters of lakes Tekapo and Pukaki. The Mckenzie Country is the location for the Pelennor Fields. The tour also flies through the gold fields and over the Vineyards of Central Otago a semi desert area, which is one of the locations for Rohan.

Weather permitting you will get to fly along the main divide of the Southern Alps past the snow fields and Glaciers all on your way from location to location.  

• Allow 6 hours total time - 2.5 hours flight time
• Morning or afternoon departures available
• Minimum 2 people for tour to leave.
• Includes lunch