In New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

, a club skifield is a small ski resort

Ski resort

A ski resort is a resort developed for skiing and other winter sports. In Europe a ski resort is a town or village in a ski area - a mountainous area, where there are ski trails and supporting services such as hotels and other accommodation, restaurants, equipment rental and a ski lift system...

 run by a ski club to provide affordable skiing to its members. While members of the public can ski, members of the club receive heavily discounted rates, in exchange for a yearly membership fee and usually several days of voluntary work maintaining the resort.

List of club skifields in New Zealand

North Island

• Manganui
  Manganui
  Manganui Ski Area, located in Taranaki, in New Zealand's North Island is a club skifield. Like all club fields, it has accommodation onsite, in the form of the 33-bed Manganui Lodge. It has 3 rope ski tows and a T-bar covering a beginner-intermediate terrain of 59 hectares. The elevation ranges...
  
  
• Tukino
  Tukino
  Tukino ski field is located on the eastern face of Mount Ruapehu, in the central area of the North Island, New Zealand.The field is a club managed field, but open to the general public. The ski area is serviced by two tows and an over-snow vehicle giving access for skiing and snow boarding. Tukino...
  
  

South Island

• Broken River
  Broken River, New Zealand
  Broken River is a river in the South Island of New Zealand. It drains into the Waimakariri River due north of the town of Springfield.The Broken River Ski Area is in the catchment area of the river. The Broken River Cave is on Cave Stream, a tributary of Broken River.-See also:*Rivers in New Zealand...
  
  
• Craigieburn Valley
  Craigieburn Valley
  Craigieburn Valley Ski Area is a club skifield in the Southern Alps of New Zealand's South Island, about east 104km from Christchurch. Catering only to intermediate and advanced skiers, it features a vertical range of 1308—1811 m, 600 hectares of skiable area and 3 fast rope tows. The resort has...
  
  
• Fox Peak
  Fox Peak
  Fox Peak is a small club skifield located 16 kilometres to the east of Lake Tekapo in New Zealand's South Island, New Zealand. Run by a non-profit organisation, the resort features 4 ski tows and a total vertical range of 580 m.-External links:...
  
  
• Mount Cheeseman
  Mount Cheeseman
  Mount Cheeseman is a club snowfield in New Zealand's South Island, near the town of Springfield, about an hour and a half from Christchurch. Situated in a south-east-facing basin, it features two T-bar lifts and one learner tow. The runs cover an elevation range of 1570-1840 metres, with a...
  
  
• Temple Basin
  Temple Basin
  Temple Basin is a club skifield in Arthur's Pass, in New Zealand's South Island. Operated by two clubs, the Temple Basin Ski Club, and the Canterbury University Snow Sports Club, the ski area has 3 rope tows, two on-site lodges, a ski school and ski shop. The tows cover an elevation range of...
  
  
• Hanmer Springs Ski Area
  Hanmer Springs Ski Area
  Hanmer Springs Ski Area, located on Mount Saint Patrick, South Island, New Zealand is a club skifield about 40 minutes' drive from the town of Hanmer Springs. It has one poma lift, and two rope tows, giving access to trails rated as 10% beginner, 50% intermediate and 40% advanced.-References:*...
  
  
• Mount Olympus
• Rainbow Ski Area
  Rainbow Ski Area
  Rainbow Ski Area is a ski resort in the Tasman Region of New Zealand's South Island.It opens a little later than other ski resorts, with an operating season from mid-July to mid-October...
  
  
• Awakino Ski Area
  Awakino ski area
  The Awakino ski field is located in St. Marys Range, North Otago, New Zealand near Kurow. It is run by the Waitaki Ski Club and is virtually unknown outside of Otago. Awakino best represents skiing as it first began in New Zealand, and the field is little changed from the when it was established in...
  
  

Former Club Fields

• Porters Ski Area
  Porters Ski Area
  Porters, is a commercial ski resort just over an hour's drive west from Christchurch, on New Zealand's South Island. Originally functioning as a club skifield, it has one beginner magic carpet, one fixed grip rope tow and three t-bars. The difficulty of the slopes is distributed as 15% beginner,...
  
   (previously "Porter Heights Ski Area") was formerly a club skifield, but is now run as a commercial operation. However, there is an active club associated that runs an alpine lodge.
• Mount Potts
  Mount Potts
  Mount Potts is a specialist backcountry skiing base in South Island, New Zealand. Unlike normal resorts, there are no fixed ski tows or chairlifts. Instead, vertical transport is provided by snowcats and helicopter...
  
   - tows removed and now run as a specialist backcountry area accessible only via helicopter.
• Mount Hutt - now run as a commercial operation by NZSki, along with Coronet Peak
  Coronet Peak
  Coronet Peak is a commercial skifield in Otago, New Zealand located 18 kilometres to the northeast of the town of Queenstown and seven kilometres west of Arrowtown, on the southern slopes of the 1,649 metre peak which shares its name...
  
   and The Remarkables
• Mount Robert
  Mount Robert
  Mount Robert 1421m high mountain, in the Nelson area of New Zealand's South Island. It is within the Nelson Lakes National Park.Access to the mountain is via the town of Saint Arnaud on a partially unsealed road followed by a two hour walk....
  
   closed in 2005, amalgamating with Rainbow Ski Area
  Rainbow Ski Area
  Rainbow Ski Area is a ski resort in the Tasman Region of New Zealand's South Island.It opens a little later than other ski resorts, with an operating season from mid-July to mid-October...