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Arrowtown Backyard Ultra 2024

Arrowtown Backyard Ultra 2024 – SOLD OUT! 

The 2024 Arrowtown Backyard Ultra starts on Sat 9 November 2024 at 9am and continues until the last person is standing! 

The backyard ultra involves competitors running 6.71km on the hour every hour until the last person is standing.  Competitors that don’t complete a lap within 1 hour or are not back in the starting corral for the start of the next lap are recorded as DNF (Did Not Finish).  The winner is the last person to complete a lap when all others have given up. 

The event village will be based at Butler Green and the course is a figure 8 loop along the Arrow River Trail and Bush Creek. 

Only one person can be the last person standing but everyone can aspire to go further than they’ve ever gone before! 

Find out more at https://www.highlandevents.co.nz/backyard-ultra

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LOCAL NUGGETS

Arrowtown Random Fact No.1

Australia’s first saint, Sister Mary MacKillop visited Arrowtown in 1897 and set up a Catholic School. Part of this school can still be visited today.

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Arrowtown Random Fact No.2

Arrowtown has one of the best preserved collection of goldfields heritage buildings in New Zealand.

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Arrowtown Random Fact No.3

Arrowtown was originally known as Fox’s. named after William Fox an early gold discoverer. Then it was known as The Arrow and later Arrowtown.

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Arrowtown Random Fact No.4

Millbrook Resort is named after Mill Farm on which it sits. Mill farm was established by the Butel family who came from Normandy.

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Arrowtown Random Fact No.5

The first jail in Arrowtown was simply a log. You were chained up to it. The later stone jail still exists and is in Cardigan Street. It is New Zealand’s 4th oldest jail.

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Arrowtown Random Fact No.6

There are two theories as to why the town is named Arrowtown. One is that the river behind the town flows swiftly like an arrow.

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