See the alpine landing from the air — then from the ground. The pad is a scrap of ridge or snow you would never walk to: Queenstown and the lake below, rock or snow underfoot. Winter can put snow at your feet; summer is bare alpine ground.
The 25-minute Helicopter Tour with Alpine Landing is built around this stop. The pilot chooses the pad and the track for the day, so the site is not a named peak on the ticket. The 35-minute Grand Circle also lands, high above town, after a longer basin circuit. The 50-minute Southern Glacier lands in snow among the glaciers instead — farther west.
You do not hike in, and you do not stay. You stand, take the view, board again, and fly back.
Those extra minutes on the Grand Circle buy more of the basin before the same kind of mountain stop. If you want ice and national-park glaciers rather than a Queenstown-basin precipice, that is the 50-minute Southern Glacier.
Book the 25-minute Helicopter Tour with Alpine Landing and see an alpine landing from the air.
See Alpine landing from a helicopter over Queenstown. Book the Queenstown 25-Minute Helicopter Tour with Alpine Landing.