Best ski resorts in New Zealand

How we picked

Around Wanaka, Cardrona is the family-friendly freestyle classic and Treble Cone the expert freeride mecca. Around Queenstown, Coronet Peak runs night skiing under floodlights and The Remarkables name themselves for the jagged Single Cone above Lake Wakatipu. North on South Island, Mt Hutt above Methven runs the longest commercial season in NZ (Jun to late Oct). Almost no resort has ski-in/ski-out lodging: you sleep in the lakeside towns and drive up daily.