Mount Hutt Conservation Area and Surroundings

28 Trails 156 POIs 3 Peaks 2 Campsites 2 Viewpoints
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Description

Mount Hutt (Māori: Opuke) rises to the west of the Canterbury Plains in the South Island of New Zealand, above the braided upper reaches of the Rakaia River, and 80 kilometres west of Christchurch. Its summit is 2190 metres above sea level. The mountain is home to a commercial alpine ski area with the largest skiable area in the South Island (3.65 square kilometres), and a vertical height of 683 metres.

Trails in the Hikepack map

  • Alder Track
  • Fascination
  • Hubers Run
  • Inside Leg
  • Mid Towers
  • Opuke Track
  • Rakaia Gorge Track
  • Ridge Track
  • Scotts Saddle Track
  • Te Araroa South Island
  • Te Awa Awa Track
  • Top Towers

Attractions in the Hikepack map

  • Coal mines
  • Cookies Hut
  • Hubers Hutt
  • Kowhai Flat
  • Lake Coleridge
  • Mount Hutt
  • Rakaia Carpark
  • Rakaia River Outlook
  • Redcliffs Farm
  • South Peak
  • Steepface Hill
  • Tribulation Hut
  • Upper Lookout

Copyright

The PDF and JPG maps are released by Hikepack under the Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Contains data ©OpenStreetMap contributors (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) under the Open Database License (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/). Topographic map based on elevation data from the U.S. Geological Survey and NASA (SRTM 1 Arc-Second Global). This work is based on/includes LINZ's data (Aerial imagery) which are licensed by Land Information New Zealand (LINZ https://www.linz.govt.nz/) for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). This work is based on/includes LINZ's data (NZ Topo 50/250) which are licensed by Land Information New Zealand (LINZ https://www.linz.govt.nz/) for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Description text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License). Cover image ©Wainscotting https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mt_Hutt.jpg Public Domain.