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Queenstown Return at Cardrona Alpine Resort

Easy · 1056 m long with 62 m of vertical, averaging 4° and 8° at its steepest, facing S.

8°steepest 50 m
4°average pitch
1056 mlength
62 mvertical
1870 mtop elevation
Sfaces

Snow and sun

Queenstown Return is poleward-facing: least winter sun, holds cold powder longest, can stay firm or icy.

How to get to Queenstown Return

Lifts that reach the top: Soho Express (skiing novice terrain to get there); Captain's Express (skiing novice terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 20 minutes, intermediate skiing needed):

  1. Ride Valley View
  2. Ski unnamed intermediate trail (intermediate)
  3. Ski Comeback Trail (easy)
  4. Ride Whitestar Express
  5. Ski Shaun's Way (intermediate)
  6. Ski Arcadia Basin (intermediate)
  7. Ski Road to Nowhere (intermediate)
  8. Ski Lower Paradise (intermediate)
  9. Ride Captain's Express
  10. Ski Queenstown Return (easy)

Where it ends

Joins Weston's Trail, Exhibition Bowl, Paradise, Pioneers. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Soho Express (3 min), Captain's Express (3 min), Wells Pipe (3 min).

See Queenstown Return on the 3D mapAll runs at Cardrona Alpine Resort
Measured from OpenStreetMap geometry and elevation via OpenSkiMap (ODbL). Times are rough. Grades, grooming and openings change day to day — check the resort's own reports.