Mount Cook, New Zealand - Glentanner Park Centre
Glentanner Park Centre Mt Cook is the holiday park, budget accommodation provider, flightseeing and activity centre for the Aoraki Mount Cook region, New Zealand. Watch our video to see for yourself and please contact us or visit our website to book your 'Complete Mt Cook Experience'.
Phone: +64 3 4351855
Phone (NZ only): 0800 453682 (0800Glentanner)
Fax: +64 3 4351854
Email: info@glentanner.co.nz
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With panoramic views of Aoraki Mt Cook and Mt Cook National Park, you will be blown away by the breath-taking scenery, awesome adventure activities, affordable accommodation and fantastic facilities here at Glentanner! Located just 18km from Mt Cook National Park on the shores of Lake Pukaki, Glentanner Park Centre boasts the best weather in the region.
We offer accommodation to suit all budgets. Self Contained Tourist Cabins with a kitchenette and bathroom, basic cabins, small and large standard bunkroom cabins, backpackers and dormitory, 60 powered campervan sites and unlimited tent sites. The holiday park accommodation is set amongst native bush in sheltered surroundings, with world-renown views of Aoraki Mount Cook and Lake Pukaki.
Enjoy our fantastic facilities which include an indoor/outdoor BBQ pavilion, shared kitchen, dining and lounge, laundry, ablution block and trampolines. Glentanner Park Centre also has a licensed café for your dining pleasure. The café is open for breakfast and lunch all year round, and for evening dining in the summer months. The café also caters for groups all year round, and has fantastic coffee and unbeatable daily specials. At the centre you will also find a Visitor Information Centre, helicopter flight desk and a Merino Retail Souvenir Shop.
While at Glentanner you will have the opportunity to partake in a range of awesome outdoor activities that have made this region famous! They include helicopter flights with snow landings with The Helicopter Line, scenic plane flights with Air Safaris, guided horse trekking on Glentanner Station, Glacier Explorers boat trips, glacier sea kayaking, hunting, fishing and 4WD tours. There are also lots of walks and hikes in Mt Cook National Park, ranging from short walks along wooden paths to multiple day tramps and ice climbing. In Mt Cook village you will also find the Sir Edmund Hillary Alpine Centre and the Department of Conservation Visitor Centre which offer educational and interactional information and activities about the region and its cultural heritage.
Glentanner Park Centre is set amongst a high country sheep station, Glentanner Station. While here you may be lucky enough to come across a Mount Cook Traffic Jam, kiwi at its best.
We look forward to welcoming you here, and if you're like everybody else the problem will be when the time comes to leave, the high country's funny like that!
Location -- Glentanner is located half way between Christchurch and Queenstown in the Mackenzie Country, South Canterbury. You will find us 33km down State Highway 80, on the way to Mt Cook Village. We are 4 hours from Christchurch, 50 minutes from Tekapo, 30 minutes from Twizel, 2 hours from Wanaka and 3 hours from Dunedin and Queenstown. See you soon!
Aoraki/mt cook doc staff gearing up for a busy summer season, encourage visitors to engage with sta
Aoraki/mt cook doc staff gearing up for a busy summer season, encourage visitors to engage with staff
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Neuseeland: Aoraki Mt Cook NP: Kea Point Track
04.12.16: Start/Ende: DOC Visitor Centre im Mt Cook Village, 2 Std. hin und zurück, ca. 3 km, ebener und einfacher Weg
Mt Cook Wedding Photography for Jennifer and James
Jennifer & James' wedding on the 27th December 2011.
Ceremony took place up on a Glacier within the Mt Cook National Park, with a photo tour afterwards on the shore of Lake Pukaki.
Mount Cook National Park is situated in the Southern Alps of New Zealand's South Island and is centered around Mount Cook - the country's highest mountain - after which it is named. The park was officially formed in 1953 and comprises over 70000 hectares - nearly all of which is alpine wilderness and much of which is covered with ice including the massive 27km long Tasman Glacier - the largest in New Zealand which amazingly is up to 2000 feet deep in places.
Most visitors will arrive here by the only road access along the shores of Lake Pukaki - whose waters are a curious deep turquoise colour due to the sediment from melting ice - to Mount Cook Village which is the only township within the park boundaries. You simply follow Highway 80 from Twizel all the way to the end of the road with spectacular views of the mountain throughout. Mount Cook Village has a visitor centre which provides detailed information on the area and there are numerous walks of varying difficulty starting from here. The Red Tarns and Kea Point tracks lead easily to viewpoints while longer trails wind into the Hooker Valley. Please note that some of the routes from here such as the Sefton Bivouac, Ball Pass and Copland Track venture into mountaineering territory and should only be attempted if you have the relevant experience. The visitor centre will advise on suitability of a route or hiring a mountain guide if necessary. Climbing Mount Cook is a serious mountaineering venture.
There is a DOC (Department of Conservation) campsite in a spectacular location just beyond Mount Cook Village and another with more facilities back down the valley near Glentanner which also offers self catering cabins, backpackers accommodation and a number of activities including horse riding. Mount Cook Village has several hotels including the celebrated Hermitage Hotel which overlooks the village.
Walking and hiking is the main activity in the park with almost countless opportunities at all levels of difficulty but there is plenty to challenge the more serious climber too with 23 peaks of over 3000 metres in the area. Mount Cook - Aoraki in the Maori language which means cloud piercer - towers to 3754 metres just beyond the village and Mt Tasman, Mt Sefton and Mt Elie de Beaumont, the best known of the other major summits rise along the ridge of the Southern Alps. Just a glance towards the head of the valley from the village will reveal vast walls of rock draped with the ice of the glaciers.
The Hooker Valley Track and Tasman Valley Road lead off into the wilderness and provide opportunities for the mountain biker though off road riding isn't permitted in the national parks of New Zealand. If you are planning to drive the Tasman Valley or anywhere beyond Mount Cook village in a hire vehicle then check you are insured for these unsealed gravel roads.
Anther justifiably popular activity is a plane or helicopter flight over the glaciers - it's worth paying a little extra for a flight that lands on the glacier as I did this from Franz Josef on the the other side of the mountains and it's absolutely awesome as they say in New Zealand. One trip I didn't get to do though is the inflatable boat trip on the terminal lake of the Tasman Glacier. It goes right up past the drifting icebergs to the edge of the glacier itself - now that is my idea of a good day out. Whatever your idea of a good day out though, if you're heading to New Zealand this year and want to experience some of the best of what nature has to offer then the Mount Cook area is for you - enjoy your trip!
Travel writer Pete Buckley is the author of 31 Days in a Campervan which follows a camper van journey around New Zealand made with wife Jacqui in July and August of 2005.
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Sealy Tarns Track: Dangerous Snow Hike – Mt Cook, New Zealand
Hiking to Sealy Tarns was a big adventure for the both of us. As it was a bit snowy after a while. We didn't expect as deep snow as we got further up the mountain. Afterwards we say was silly to walk this amazing track without snow gear.
We met some more people even less prepared and we have them the advice to turn back.
Our advice to you: Get informations about track conditions at the visitor center, be prepared & tell somebody. Enjoy this amazing hike which is part of the Mueller Hut track.
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Mueller Hut Route: Alpine Tramping (Hiking) Series | New Zealand
The Mueller Hut Route is one of the more advanced alpine tramps (hikes) in the Aoraki/Mount Cook Region and offers stunning scenery of the mountainous landscape. The Mueller Hut Route takes you 11.8km straight up and back down the other side of the Sealy Range, climbing a total of 1000m in elevation. Since the whole tramp is in alpine terrain, there are a few things you need to be aware of before heading out. In this video we will take you along the track and show you how to prepare for a successful trip and make it home safely.
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