Only an hour from Queenstown, Cardrona Alpine Resort is the family friendly resort with the most reliable snow conditions in New Zealand. Its high elevation allows for bountiful natural snow which gets topped up with the resorts snowmaking facilities. Cardrona is a winter utopia for beginner and intermediate riders. It has NZ’s only combined gondola chairlift, surface lifts that are easy to ride and exclusive beginner packages so everyone can relish in the wide open trails covering 3 basins. For those wanting something a little more extreme there’s plenty of powder stashes, chutes and cliff drops to be found in Arcadia.

Cardrona boasts the most extensive terrain park facilities in the Southern Hemisphere with 4 parks, 2 half pipes and a gravity-cross course. The resort facilities are also impressive with a diverse variety of cafés, accommodation and retail stores, a kids centre, ski and snowboard lessons plus equipment rental department. Cardrona is the perfect well rounded resort and has all bases covered.