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Alps to Ocean Cycle Trail Opens

The Alps to Ocean Cycle Trail Opens this weekend with an official opening ceremony for the completed Alpine Section (mt Cook to Omarama) at the Hermitage Hotel in Mt Cook Village, special offers from Helicopter Line to fly people to the start of the trail and a closing ceremony on Sunday at the CountryTime Hotel […]

Ohau to Quailburn update

The Ohau to Quailburn section of the trail is finally nearing completion after numerous weather delays over the last few months. The trail is looking good and travels through some quite beautiful lake and mountain scenery. Check out the views…

A2O Cycle Trail Update January 2013

The latest cycle Trail update shows that the Alps 2 Ocean Cycle Trail is gathering momentum as more and more people are exploring the completed off road sections and the first official tour, our own A2O Cycle Tours – A2O Experience,  has ridden the entire length. We helicoptered the group in to Chop Creek from […]

The First ever Official Alps 2 Ocean Cycle Tour!

We’ve done it! After 3 years of preparation and planning, waiting for the trail to be ready, our A2O Cycle Tours business has completed it’s first full tour of the new Alps 2 Ocean Cycle Trail. The icing on the cake is that our tour is the first official cycle tour to […]

The Alps 2 Ocean Cycle Trail is gearing up to its official opening. The trail construction is steaming ahead in order to get as much as possible open for this coming summer. Due to the wet weather over winter and early spring, some sections have progressed more slowly than we’d like, but that’s only because we’re impatient to show the […]

A certain Alps 2 Ocean Tour company who’s recently become an official partner (but who shall remain nameless, you know who you are!) has clearly copied our tour information and systems, even our booking tour terms and conditions!

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

So thanks guys, after the huge effort we’ve put in to make these tours so […]

The Quailburn Road into Omarama trail, otherwise known as section 4 of the A2O Trail, is now  constructed. The surface just needs watering and then the roller over and it’s completely finished. It’s all looking soooooo good…

Alps to Ocean Cycle Trail September Update

Winter is finally over and the lengthening days are moving us closer to the official Alps to Ocean Cycle Trail opening. Work is moving on with construction and finally, the business entity for the trail has received approval from the Waitaki & Mackenzie District Councils to be managed by Tourism Waitaki. At long last […]

The Alps 2 Ocean Cycle Trail is gathering momentum ready for it’s November/December 2012 official opening. As the Alpine section from Mt Cook to Omarama is being completed, many small off road sections are also being constructed or added to the pipeline for the future. In this map of the entire Waitaki Valley section of the A2O Cycleway, you can […]

Construction of the Alps 2 Ocean Cycle Trail continues in July with the winter projects being the 2 sections needed to link Lake Ohau to Ohau Village and Ohau Village to Quailburn Road.

Here are some photos from the current construction of the Alps 2 Ocean Cycle Trail. These are the last parts of the alpine section of the trail and […]