Queenstown, Wanaka Snow Areas

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Queenstown and Wanaka Snow Areas, New Zealand

Updated 23 June, 2006

New Zealand Snow Areas.

Kia Ora

The 5 snow fields in the Southern Lakes area around Queenstown and Lake Wanaka offer the most diverse range of snow activities in New Zealand. Skiing, snowboarding, cross country skiing or do it all in the backcountry by helicopter. Coronet Peak, Cardrona, The Remarkables, Waiorau Snow Farm and Treble Cone are all within 2 hours drive of each other.

The ski season goes from June to October although this varies a bit from place to place. Mt Hutt is nearly always the first open and often the last closed. All of the skiing is done up in the mountains which means that after skiing you can come down and have a game of golf or go for a jet boat ride!

About two hours drive from Christchurch are Mt Hutt and the Craigeburn Range area with Mt Hutt, Porters Heights, Craigeburn and Temple Basin.

If you have plenty of time to explore New Zealand it is probably worth skiing one of the three snow fields on our very own live volcano Mt Ruapehu, in the North Island. Whakapapa is without doubt the best ski field in New Zealand on its day ( that will stir up a bees nest!).

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Snow Areas

Coronet Peak
The Remarkables
Treble Cone
Cardrona
Waiorau Snow Farm

Snow Cams

Coronet Cam
Remarkables Cam
Cardrona Cam
AJ Hackett Bungy Cam

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Snow Area Summary - southern fields

	Treble Cone	Cardrona	Remarkables	Coronet Peak	Snow Park	Snow Farm
Summit	2 100 m	2 059 m	2 324m	1 650 m
Highest Lift	1 860 m	2 059 m	1 935m	1 640 m
Vertical drop	660 m	390 m	357 m	420 m
Average Snow	5.5 m	2.6m	3.1 m	2.1 m
Snowmaking	25 guns	none	5 guns	116 guns
Terrain area	550 ha	350 ha	220 ha	280 ha
Beginner	15%	20%	30%	20%
Intermediate	45%	60%	40%	45%
Advanced	40%	20%	30%	35%
Snowboard	pipe, terrain park	4 pipes, 1 BX	terrain park,snow tubing	2 pipes, terrain park
Adult Day Pass	NZ$89	NZ$74	NZ$79	NZ$84	NZ$66	NZ$30
from Wanaka	22 km	34 km 35 minutes
from Queenstown	90kms 90 minutes	57 kms 60 minutes	28kms 45 minutes	18km 25 minutes	55km 60 minutes	55km 60 minutes

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Radio Snow Reports - June to October only

	Queenstown	Wanaka	Time
Resort Radio	99FM		6.45am, 7.20am, 8.20am
Radio Wanaka		92.2FM	6.35am, 7.15am, 8.15am
Q92 The Breeze	92, 92.8FM	97.8FM	6.50am, 7.10am, 8.10am, 11.30am
The Station	96.8FM		on the hour 8am to midday