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Home for your adventurous spirit MTCARDRONASTATION.CO.NZ Welcome Your adventure starts here The Cardrona Valley, nestled between Queenstown and Wānaka, holds a rich pioneering history shaped by gold miners, run holders and tourism trailblazers. Taking its cues from these early pioneers and adventurers, Mt Cardrona Station is also breaking new ground. This document outlines our vision for the station. Set upon 400 hectares, the station will offer sophisticated, contemporary living in a resort-style community alongside a world-class ski field in a spectacular high-country setting. There has never been anything quite like this before in New Zealand. We invite you to be among the first to own a slice of this inspiring and breathtaking landscape. MT CARDRONA STATION MAKARORA The LAKE WĀNAKA LAKE HĀWEA heartof Central Otago HĀWEA WĀNAKA LUGGATE GLENORCHY The Queenstown Lakes District ARROWTOWN is an area of captivating diversity. QUEENSTOWN From the roaring waters of the Kawarau River and its exhilarating jet boating and rafting FRANKTON to the desert-like landscapes of Bannockburn, where the world’s finest Pinot Noir is crafted. The immense wilderness of Mt Aspiring National Park spans from Makarora at the top of Lake Wānaka to the outskirts of Glenorchy at the head of Lake Wakatipu. The bustle and excitement of Queenstown is complemented by Wānaka’s more laid-back approach. The historic townships of Cardrona and Arrowtown safeguard the region’s LAKE WAKATIPU incredible gold rush history. In summer or winter, there is always an excuse to get out and explore, and from the Cardrona Valley, everything is within easy reach. KINGSTON MT CARDRONA STATION Home for your Wānaka Queenstown Cardrona Alpine Resort 20-minute drive 45-minute drive 20-minute drive Arrowtown Treble Cone Valley View Lift adventurous 30-minute drive 50-minute drive 12-minute drive spirit Mount Cardrona Soho Basin Cardrona Alpine Resort CHONDOLA EXPRESS QUAD D UA S Q MCDOUGALL’S ES PR EX R STA TE I CAPTAIN’S WH VIEW QUAD Top of the Station VALLEY Pringles High Point 790m Lookout Summit 840m Escarpment Lookout 650m MT CARDRONA STATION Cardrona Hotel Cardrona Valley Road Walking/Biking Trails Hiking Trails Biking Trails Cardrona Alpine Resort Access Road Lookouts & Locations Mt Cardrona Station Access Road Indicative trail alignment Indicative illustration image only MT CARDRONA STATION Past A gold strike in the Cardrona Valley in 1862 brought the Otago gold rush to the district. By 1863, 300 miners called Cardrona home as they worked the river and nearby streams. A thriving Cardrona township of more than 1,000 Not since the gold rush days has people existed by the late 1870s. As the gold—and gold fever— Cardrona offered such an enticing waned, farming activity increased and high country sheep stations place to live, play and stay. covered much of the Criffel Range and Mt Cardrona sides of the valley. The historic Cardrona Hotel is the area’s strongest connection The Cardrona Valley is intrinsically From gold mining to farming to with its colourful gold rush past linked with its gold rush and high an ever-increasing permanent as well as being one of the most country farming past. However, population, Cardrona Valley has a popular garden bars in the district. for locals, the Cardrona Valley way of connecting deeply with all is widely known as the place who choose to call it home. As an for outdoor adventures. Snow owner at Mt Cardrona Station, you Present sports in winter, mountain biking have the opportunity to shape the and hiking in summer and a next chapter of this extraordinary spectacular drive along the Crown part of New Zealand. Today, the Cardrona landscape Range Road at any time of year. consists of conservation areas, snow sports activities, hiking tracks and Merino farming. At any time of the year, there is an which traverses from the Cardrona Top: The iconic Cardrona Hotel. adventure to be had. Cardrona Valley all the way to Roaring Meg Above: Cardrona Alpine Resort is a mountain- off SH6 in the Kawarau Gorge. Distillery uses pure Cardrona Valley lovers' playground throughout Come wintertime, it would be hard alpine water to summer with lift-accessed to find a better place to be in the create its spirits. Left: The downhill downhill mountain biking trails, Southern Hemisphere for snow mountain biking mountain carting and gondola sports - Cardrona Alpine Resort, trails. rides. Across the valley, Tuhoys Soho Basin and Snow Farm are all Gully provides access to the Pisa yours for the taking. Not far from Conservation Area for hiking and Mt Cardrona Station, Cardrona biking trails and backcountry huts. Distillery is fast establishing itself The Roaring Meg Pack Track is as a world-class producer of single also accessible from Tuhoys Gully, malt whiskies, gin and liqueurs. MT CARDRONA STATION Opportunities to live and stay so close to ski fields are rare in New Zealand. Whatever your Mt Cardrona Station residents will have excellent access to one preference for snow of the most popular ski areas in sports, you will find New Zealand. it all right here. On the other side of the valley, Snow Farm is your winter family playground. Also founded by Mt Cardrona Station is enviably Cardrona stalwarts John and positioned adjacent to world-class Mary Lee, Snow Farm offers 55 ski field, Cardrona Alpine Resort. kilometres of cross-country skiing Cardrona is home to 410 hectares to tempt first-timers or hard-core of skiable terrain and the Southern Nordic ski enthusiasts. Hemisphere’s most extensive terrain park. There is always Fifty minutes from Cardrona, something happening at Cardrona Treble Cone offers yet another Alpine Resort, and winter 2021 ski area that is easy to reach for will see the opening of an extra a day’s skiing. With Cardrona 65 hectares of skiable terrain at Alpine Resort and Treble Cone Willow’s Basin in the Soho Ski under the same ownership, season Area. Further expansion into the pass and multi-day pass holders Soho Basin over coming years have access to two incredible may see Cardrona Alpine Resort mountains with one pass. View from McDougall's ultimately offer more than 900 lift at Cardrona hectares of terrain. Alpine Resort. MT CARDRONA STATION IntroducingMt Cardrona Station Indicative illustration image only MT CARDRONA STATION An Alpine Positioned on an elevated plateau and holiday accommodation. Architecturally designed buildings above the Cardrona Valley, Careful consideration has been will sit respectfully Mt Cardrona Station is 400 given to master-planning to within the dramatic Central Otago hectares of captivating high ensure dwellings, infrastructure landscape, making Mt Cardrona Station country. Time spent on the station and landscaping are integrated a showcase for offers a rare opportunity to make and uncluttered. Connection to urban-rural living. the most of all that Central Otago views, open spaces and natural has to offer and then at the end vegetation is central to the of the day, retreat to the modern design ethos. comforts of contemporary living. There is nothing else quite like it. Once completed, Mt Cardrona Village Station will incorporate twenty Mt Cardrona Station will be the first of its kind in individual neighbourhoods. New Zealand. A spectacular high country community Each neighbourhood will offer a distinct way to live on the offering master-planned residential living, visitor station and provide a range of accommodation and modern amenities. options for permanent residential Indicative illustration image only MT CARDRONA STATION CARDRONA SKI FIELD ROAD Every aspect of Mt Cardrona Station is influenced by its extraordinary surrounds. Homes in the village are intended to sit easily within the dramatic tussock and matagouri-covered plateaus. Architectural design references the significant heritage and natural contours of the location, and it is for this reason Mt Cardrona Station is expected to become a showcase for urban- rural living. Design guidelines provide an overarching vision for Mt Cardrona Station while still PADDOCK providing scope for individual HOMESTEAD AND interpretation. The historical ADVENTURE CENTRE Designed to maximise privacy and the views over the valley from its plateau position. precedents of early miners’ cottages and simple farmhouses which once dotted the landscape Strong guidelines for architectural provide inspiration, as does TENNIS a desire for an unashamedly COURT and landscape design provide a contemporary design ethos and highest-quality modern elements way to connect the built form with and materials. Some neighbourhoods will its dramatic natural setting. offer house and land packages featuring the design work of award-winning Leuschke Group Architects. Other neighbourhoods are available as land only and provide unashamedly opportunity for owners to work with a blank template and architect of choice. A distinctive contemporary attribute of Mt Cardrona Station will be the way in which built architecture forms offer visual interest and variability as well as consistency. Built forms and materials avoid the urban appearance. Inspiration is drawn from the beauty of the Southern Lakes, an area revered around the globe. Indicative illustration images only CARDRONA VALLEY ROAD MT CARDRONA STATION Your home to Set on one of the most and mountain biking of all levels, for walking. Tracks range from Four hundred hectares of high country spectacular hillside locations in the trail network will open up this short half-hour walks to longer roam the Cardrona Valley, Mt Cardrona incredible area which, for many adventures by bike or on foot and 30 kilometres of managed trails are Station provides easy access decades, has been private land. making this an incredible addition to an adventurous lifestyle. The to life on the station. Gentle loop tracks close to accessible for all residents, all year-round. access road to Cardrona Alpine the village are designed for The creation of this premium Resort borders Mt Cardrona beginners and families, and for network of trails within Station, and close by Soho Basin the more adventurous, higher Mt Cardrona Station delivers and Snow Farm offer even more routes give access to old farm yet another asset to the Cardrona snow sports options.
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