Mount Cheeseman Ski Area

New Zealand

Piste map

200 m
Lifts

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

Summit
1,854 m6,083 ft
Base
1,550 m5,085 ft
Vertical
304 m997 ft
Named runs
20
Length of named runs
5.6 km
Lifts
3

Runs by difficulty

  • Green 3 15% · 1.5 km
  • Blue 9 45% · 2.4 km
  • Black 8 40% · 1.8 km

Longest run

745 m

Hinman Highway

Steepest run

59%

Sunny Face

Steepest 100 m: 64%

Biggest drop

158 m

Way Wide

The named runs add up to 5.6 km.

Every named run

The named runs of Mount Cheeseman Ski Area, with their length, drop and gradients
Profile
A Basin280 m130 m47%58%
Broadway330 m82 m25%27%
Cockayne265 m127 m48%64%
Cockayne445 m136 m31%67%
Collins165 m82 m51%55%
Easy Ride390 m87 m22%27%
Elephant Holes130 m7 m5%5%
Far Out155 m74 m48%55%
Gunbarrel245 m106 m43%57%
Hinman Highway745 m136 m18%31%
Noggy's Garden210 m92 m44%48%
Pine Tree120 m58 m47%49%
Ridge Run135 m64 m49%51%
Shamus' Way330 m33 m10%15%
Shirt Front235 m70 m30%30%
Sunny Face195 m114 m59%64%
Swiss Run235 m80 m34%39%
Tarn Return225 m81 m36%40%
The Wiggle170 m51 m30%36%
Way Wide625 m158 m25%44%

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

  • 3Drag lifts
Length of all lifts
1.1 km
Rise of all lifts together
378 m
The lifts of Mount Cheeseman Ski Area
Learners TowDrag lift65 m11 m
Main T-BarDrag lift700 m223 m
Ridge T-BarDrag lift355 m144 m

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, 1,854 m

Base, 1,550 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

20 km40 km 123456
Mount Cheeseman Ski Area beside the ski resorts nearest to it
Mount Cheeseman Ski Area304 m1,854 m205.6 km3
1Broken River Ski Area3.8 km398 m1,815 m124.8 km9
2Craigieburn Valley Ski Area5.8 km516 m1,810 m
3Mount Olympus Ski Area6.5 km349 m1,814 m
4Porters Ski Area13.2 km639 m1,943 m
5Temple Basin28.2 km405 m1,751 m3
6Mount Hutt Ski Area38.8 km646 m2,065 m3319.8 km5

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

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