Bushtown Steam Up Family Fun Weekend

Steam engines, vintage machinery and family entertainment in Waimate

See Waimate’s pioneering history come noisily back to life at the Bushtown Steam Up Family Fun Weekend. Held at Bushtown Heritage Park, this annual event features working steam engines, vintage machinery and traditional sawmilling, along with rides, displays, stalls, food and activities for the kids.

Explore Bushtown’s Edwardian main street and early-settler displays while engines chug, machinery clatters and the sawmill gets down to work. It’s an entertaining weekend for families, machinery enthusiasts and anyone interested in how things were done before everything came with a charger.

What, where and when

Where: Bushtown Heritage Park, Dobson Street, Waimate
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