Insiders Dunedin
The city through the eyes of the people who live it.
The city through the eyes of the people who live it.
Seven ways in. Pick the one that catches your eye.
What we've been looking at lately.
Months of willow, tissue paper and cold workshop nights go into the Dunedin Midwinter Carnival. Here is how the city makes its own light in June.
12 October 2026
Signal Hill does three things at once: the view over the harbour basin, the 1940 centennial memorial, and the mountain bike trails cut in below.
The 9km fence, the birds that came back and the tracks worth walking at Orokonui Ecosanctuary, half an hour north of the Octagon. From Dunedin locals.
The University Book Shop has traded on Great King Street since 1945. Inside Dunedin's independent bookshop: textbooks, story-time and staff picks.
Started as a side project between a handful of Dunedin locals who kept running into the same problem: they'd discover something brilliant - a new bar in a converted warehouse, a walking track they'd somehow never done, a ceramicist working out of a garage in Port Chalmers - and have nowhere to put the story except a Facebook post that would vanish in a day.
A shared blog became a proper site when they realised other people were having the same experience. Dunedin has always been full of things worth knowing about; it was just missing a place to collect them.
The stories, people, and places that make Dunedin worth paying attention to. In your inbox when we have something worth sharing.
