South Island ski season comes to an end

Cardrona skifield closed yesterday. Photo / Supplied

The South Island ski season is officially over, with both Mt Hutt and Cadrona now closed.

Both fields closed yesterday and some late snowfall meant that Mt Hutt stayed open for a week longer than planned.

The ski field had 800-900 skiers every day this week, Mt Hutt area manager James Mckenzie said.

"The whole week's worked out pretty well for us so we're pretty ecstatic that we've managed to extend our season for the extra week."

It hasn't finalised its plans for the off season yet, but Mr Mckenzie said they've got a few ideas.

"You know ultimately we want to try and work on improving access to the mountain with improvement from the access road and look at ways to extend our beginner terrain so they'll be the sort of key focus areas for us over the summer."