'Tens of millions' to be spent on Cardrona ski hill

Cardrona is to get a new chairlift. (Image: Jake Rudd)

Fri, 15 Dec 2023

Tourism operator Real Group says consents are in place to add a six-seater chairlift and 24% to Cardrona Alpine Resort's accessible ski terrain.Consents for the lift and associated earthworks will open up the field's 150-hectare Soho Basin and take the Wānaka hill to 615ha of lift-accessed ski and snowboarding terrain, ahead of Mt Ruapehu's 550ha at Whakapapa.General manager of Cardrona and Treble Cone experiences Laura Hedley said the basin would be similar in size to and directly behind the field's Captain's Basin, of...

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