Cardrona has three wide, open basins with some of New Zealand’s most progressive terrain – every member of the family will have a favourite trail up here! We’re sitting high; our altitude makes for some of NZ’s best snow conditions, & we look after it with an innovative snowmaking & snow management system. This makes for one of the country’s most reliable seasons – you can book your NZ ski holiday to Cardrona with confidence!

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Learning to ski or snowboard is made easy at Cardrona, with:

• New Zealand’s only gondola cabin-style lift on a ski area, the McDougall’s Express Chondola, to make the next step easy for the whole family.
• A dedicated Beginners’ Area with two conveyor lifts, one of them with a see-through “gallery” tunnel to keep you dry & warm!
• A spot for Under 5s to learn with their very own Kindy Conveyor.
• Wide, open green trails – room to learn!
• We’re pretty biased, but we reckon our Snow Sports School instructors are the coolest…
• Private & group lessons for all ages & levels.

Here at Cardrona, we’re passionate about passing on our love for our maunga to the next generation, so we’ve got programmes, lessons & facilities for our littlest snow addicts here.

We know that if your kids are happy, you’re happy. You can drop the teeny tots (3months-5yrs) off at Ski Kindy, or the older kids (5-14yrs) at Kids’ Club for the day – we look after them, teach them to ski or snowboard, even feed them(!), so you can ski stoked in the knowledge that they’re sorted.

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