Shannon House & Cottage

06/12/2024

It's hard to imagine next winter while summer is beaming down on the Central Plateau and steadily melting last winter's snow from Mt Ruapehu. But the good folks at Pure Turoa are already prearing for next ski season. Check it out!

Get ready – 2025 Season Passes go on sale Thursday, December 12th at 12:30 PM!

We appreciate your patience, and trust us, it’ll be worth the wait! Thanks to our new online shop we’re excited to offer an amazing interest-free payment plan. Pay just $50 upfront, with the balance spread over 4 easy instalments next year.
This offer applies to both Season Passes and Platinum Passes.

30/11/2024

Nearly time for another Tussock Traverse run - Jan 25th.
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This is one beast of a trail running and walking event held in the Tongariro National Park The Tussock Traverse RETURNS in 2024 to celebrate its 20th birthday!

11/11/2024

A beautiful morning on the Central Plateau. Our intrepid guests in the West Wing did the Taranaki Falls track and whitewater rafting yesterday (her) and the Tongariro Crossing (him). Today they're out on the deck enjoying breakfast and it's only 5c out there!

11/11/2024

Of interest to mountain bikers hoping to do the Bridge to Nowhere trail. Looks like that may take a while to clear.

Update. NOW OPEN 13/11/24 See comments below.. We have a major slip between the Bridge to Nowhere and the Mangapurua Landing. It is impassable. The team from Department of Conservation are working on a solution. This impacts the riders and the walkers . We will update our trail status page soon
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31/10/2024

What a great turnout of polite, grateful local children trick-or-treating for Halloween tonight. We handed out about 3kgs of sweets to more than 160 kids!

09/10/2024

If snow's not your thing, check out the other school holiday goodies in town!

Are you coming to Ohakune this week and looking for an epic deal to keep the kids busy?
We are offering Half price Bike rental for kids for the school holidays!
Or head out for a round of disc golf, half price rental for disc golf sets for this week only.
In-store only specials for this week!
Family fun at half the price!!

09/10/2024

Fresh snow at the mountain top, Shannon House & Cottage both available for quick weekends away! Be in quick before the season ends!

The mountain road is currently closed due to snow. While we are not expecting enough to allow us to re open the lower mountain this should provide a fresh sprinkle to enjoy on the upper trails. Friday - Sunday is currently looking fine and clear!

26/09/2024

Still spots left for the school holidays! Get amongst it!

☀ WEEKEND WEATHER ☀ It looks like we're heading in to the school holidays with a bang! The forecast is looking great for Saturday, Sunday and Monday, especially considering the dusting of snow forecasted on Friday! We'll be open as long as there's snow to enjoy, here's hoping that's until the end of October 🤞

11/09/2024

11/09/2024

Lots of snow and now a lovely top-up from Mother Nature!

08/09/2024

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Kia Ora, Plenty of good vibes out on the Maunga today. Please check back at 06.30 for the outlook for Monday and the latest Tūroa report.

05/09/2024

More mountain madness!

Posted up last night and already got the first brave souls signed up to compete in 2024!!! Yeeehaaaa let's go Ohakune!

Proudly organised by The Powderkeg PURE TUROA TCB Ohakune

Do you want the chance to be part of promoting this amazing race?! Send us an email for details on how to become a sponsor to [email protected]

26/08/2024

All the best people ski at Turoa!

20/08/2024

Get amongst it!

20/08/2024

The snow dances have worked!

The PURE TUROA team are going hard today with all the fresh snow!!!
What an epic mid season fall!
Forecast for tomorrow is looking good as well!!
Get ready for powder Wednesday!!!
And remember... there is a dedicated team up there working through the intense snow fall so we can enjoy it tomorrow.
When you see the staff tomorrow morning, thank them for there Mahi!!
Go team pure Tūroa go!!!!