Cardrona Alpine Resort

New Zealand

Piste map

500 m
Lifts

Runs and lifts from OpenStreetMap as of 27 September 2026. Select a run or a lift to see its figures.

Summit
1,865 m6,119 ft
Base
1,266 m4,154 ft
Vertical
599 m1,965 ft
Named runs
65
Length of named runs
38.1 km
Lifts
10

Runs by difficulty

  • Green 8 12% · 6.7 km
  • Blue 35 54% · 21.2 km
  • Black 13 20% · 6.5 km
  • Double black 1 2% · 0.4 km
  • No grade mapped 8 12% · 3.2 km

Longest run

1.4 km

Comeback Trail

Steepest run

45%

Short Black

Steepest 100 m: 48%

Biggest drop

274 m

Highway 89

The named runs add up to 38.1 km.

Every named run

The named runs of Cardrona Alpine Resort, with their length, drop and gradients
Profile
A Real Journey580 m126 m22%36%
All Nations830 m191 m23%34%
Antlers Alley520 m135 m26%33%
Arcadia Basin495 m97 m20%27%
Arcadia Chutes435 m138 m32%58%
Arcadia Valley1.0 km189 m18%26%
Big Air300 m76 m25%35%
Big Bucks490 m119 m24%27%
Big Willow's1.4 km258 m19%39%
Bowling Alley195 m67 m34%42%
Branchline380 m36 m9%17%
Broadway385 m136 m35%53%
Comeback Trail1.4 km118 m8%16%
Cooper's305 m66 m22%28%
Creekside500 m179 m36%49%
Drift430 m178 m41%48%
Drop In215 m60 m28%43%
Exhibition Bowl395 m95 m24%41%
Falcon Cliffs435 m136 m31%53%
Footrot Flats705 m124 m18%22%
Gecko's Chase700 m216 m31%44%
Gin and Raspberry555 m116 m21%35%
Goldrush Downhill740 m198 m27%33%
Gravity X290 m65 m23%28%
Gun Shot215 m67 m31%39%
Highway 891.3 km274 m21%32%
In The Schist585 m161 m28%48%
International Pipe340 m80 m24%29%
Last Shot Bowl345 m123 m36%49%
Lil' Bucks550 m112 m20%28%
Lower Paradise215 m41 m19%25%
Mineshaft725 m203 m28%54%
Mondo Rocks435 m107 m25%38%
Mr. Anderson565 m160 m28%40%
Olympic Pipe220 m62 m28%30%
Outer Limits1.0 km238 m24%55%
Over Run865 m48 m6%15%
Paradise815 m156 m19%26%
Pioneers710 m231 m33%42%
Powder Keg430 m150 m35%48%

Drop and gradients are read from a terrain model every 20 m along each run. Steepest is the steepest 100 m of a run. Runs shorter than 100 m have no gradient, and ~ marks a length estimated past a piece of the run mapped the other way.

Lifts

  • 6Chairlifts
  • 2Drag lifts
  • 2Magic carpets
Length of all lifts
6.7 km
Rise of all lifts together
1,868 m
The lifts of Cardrona Alpine Resort
Captain's ExpressChairlift1.0 km262 m4
Covered Conveyor LiftMagic carpet165 m17 m
Kindy ConveyorMagic carpet15 m1 m
McDougall's ChondolaChairlift880 m177 m6
Soho ExpressChairlift1.2 km375 m6
T-BarDrag lift560 m133 m
Valley ViewChairlift715 m277 m4
Wells PipeDrag lift225 m66 m
Whitestar ExpressChairlift1.2 km328 m4
Willows QuadChairlift710 m232 m4

Seats and ride times only where OpenStreetMap records them. Rise is the height between the stations, from a terrain model.

Places to eat and drink

Places mapped on OpenStreetMap in and around the resort. Opening times, menus and reviews are in the map apps.

Weather

Summit, 1,865 m

Base, 1,266 m

Forecast by MET Norway for the heights of the summit and the base, for the next two days. Times are in your time zone.

Ski resorts nearby

50 km100 km 1234
Cardrona Alpine Resort beside the ski resorts nearest to it
Cardrona Alpine Resort599 m1,865 m6538.1 km10
1Coronet Peak17.5 km446 m1,613 m
2The Remarkables Ski Area23.4 km379 m1,986 m3621.0 km7
3Treble Cone Ski Area26.0 km704 m1,955 m7130.7 km3
4Ōhau Snow Fields97.3 km380 m1,799 m

Distances in a straight line. A dot stands where a figure is not mapped yet.

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