List of New Zealand ski lifts

North Island

Whakapapa ([Mount Ruapehu])

[Turoa] (Mt Ruapehu)

[Tukino] (Mt Ruapehu)

[Manganui] (Mount Taranaki)

Other North Island ski lifts

South Island

[Mount Robert] (St Arnaud)

Rainbow (St Arnaud">Saint Arnaud, New Zealand">St Arnaud)

Amuri / [Hanmer Springs] (Hanmer Springs)

[Mount Lyford] (Kaikoura)

[Temple Basin] (Arthurs Pass)

[Craigieburn Valley] (Arthurs Pass)

Broken River">Broken River (New Zealand)">Broken River (Arthurs Pass)

• The access tow, from above the accommodation buildings to the field itself. Above the tow shed, which is at the height of Palmer Lodge, this tow is known as the Rugby tow, from the former Rugby car engine that used to power it.
• The main tow
• The ridge tow
• Two learners / access tows near Palmer lodge.

[Mount Cheeseman]

Porters ([Arthur's Pass National Park])

Mount Olympus">Mount Olympus Ski Area">Mount Olympus (Rakaia Valley)

[Mount Hutt] (Methven)

• The top T bars - 2 T bars installed side by side, above the top of the old quad. One T bar went halfway to the summit, the second T bar went most of the way to the summit, finishing slightly short of the current six-seater. These were diesel powered.

• The Towers Triple chair with mid-station. Fixed grip.
• The Quad
• The Summit Six seater, operating from the base buildings to near the summit of Mt Hutt at 2086 metres

Erewhon (Rangitata Valley">Rangitata River">Rangitata Valley)

• Learners tow
• Access tow
• Main tow
• Senior tow

[Fox Peak] (Fairlie)

• Skid row learners tow
• Meadow tow
• Shirt front tow
• Apex tow

[Mount Dobson] (Farlie)

Round Hill">Roundhill Ski Area">Round Hill (Tekapo)

• 1 double chair

• 1 T bar
• Learners lifts
• The Heritage Express Rope Tow, a nutcracker rope tow which is the longest and steepest rope tow in the world. 1.5 km long with 650 metre vertical rise. Installed in 2010.

  Ohau">Ohau (skifield)">Ohau (Ohau)

• 1 rope tow
• 1 T-bar

• 1 double chair, fixed grip, diesel
• 1 learners platter

[Awakino] (Kurow)

[Treble Cone] (Wanaka)

• Main double, installed in the early 1980s.
• Saddle T Bar. Replaced by the Saddle Quad.
• Saddle Double - diesel fixed grip, moved to Saddle Basin in 1995? after it was replaced on its old alignment by the current six-seater. Replaced in 2006? by the Summit Quad.
• Main T Bar, removed in 1990s?

• Six seater express - detachable six seater, installed in 1996?
• Saddle Quad - fixed grip quad from the old base site of the saddle basin double to near Tim's table, above the top of the old T-bar.
• Learners lifts

  Cardrona">Cardrona Alpine Resort">Cardrona (Wanaka)

• Learners Carpet 17 vertical metres
• McDougall's Chondola 180 vertical metres
• Captain's Express 265 vertical metres
• Whitestar Express 320 vertical metres
• Valley View 300 vertical metres. This is being converted to a "chondola" arrangement, with several gondola cars being installed onto the main wire rope.

[Snow Farm] / Snow Park (Wanaka)

[Coronet Peak] (Queenstown)

• A "double" rope tow. Snowboarders would have loved this, if those things were invented back then. Installed in 1947 and designed by William Hamilton, the inventor of the jet boat, who also perfected the nutcracker device that is still used today.
• The Happy Valley Poma - the original learners lift, running diagonally right from the base buildings towards the Lunch Rocks. From memory it had three large spans and two jumping off points. Removed in 1994
• The Shirtfront Double chair - installed in 1952 as one of the first chairlifts installed in New Zealand. This was the main lift of the field until 1994, whereupon it was then moved to replace the Happy Valley poma on a new alignment as the Meadows double chair. It lasted here until the start of 2010. Rumour has it that they didn't need to slow it down for suitability as a learners lift. Converted to electric at some stage in the 1960s.

• The Greengates triple. My favourite old lift. Installed in the 1970s on the western part of the field. This had real character, with the entire drive unit sitting on rollers within a frame mounted to a dynamic cable counterweight, presumably to take up the slack from the several large spans that the lift went through higher up. It had a mid-station a short distance up the line. Removed in 2007 and replaced with a six-seater Greengates express. The mid-station was rarely used, except when snow conditions on the lower runs prevented access back to the base.
• The Blue Gums poma, a small learners poma below the Rocky Gully T Bar. Removed in the 1990s.

• The Coronet Express detachable quad - installed in 1994
• Greengates Express six seater - installed in 2005, on an alignment slightly to the west of the old Greengates triple.
• Meadows Quad - installed in 2010, replacing the old double.
• Rocky Gully T-bar, in Rocky gully on the right of the field, installed in 1981

  [The Remarkables] (Queenstown)

• The Alta Double, sometime in the late 1990s

• The Alta Quad - fixed grip, installed in the late 1990s.
• Curvey Basin Six - six-seat detachable express installed in 2014
• Sugar Bowl Quad - fixed grip, installed in the 1980s, used to have a mid-station
• Shadow Basin Quad, still with a mid-station.
• Learners lifts

  Invincible (Glenorchy">Glenorchy, New Zealand">Glenorchy)

Other South Island lifts

• Danseys Pass

• Lees Valley

• Kelly Range

• Kakanui Mountains, above the Pigroot

• Rock and Pillars

• Garston

• Mt Luxmore