2026 editionNo. 19
Mahu Whenua
Southern Alps, New Zealand
Why Mahu Whenua is one of The World’s Best 100 Lodges 2026.
Mahu Whenua gives a handful of guests access to an immense privately protected reach of New Zealand high country. Riding, hiking and helicopter journeys begin at the door, while the lodge’s residential warmth, excellent produce and buyout-level privacy make the scale outside feel entirely personal.
The essentials.
- Destination
- Southern Alps, New Zealand
- Property
- Private high-country lodge
- Operator
- Mahu Whenua
- Opened
- 2016
AddressMahu Whenua, Southern Alps, New ZealandOpen map ↗
Edition factsThe record at a glance
- Position
- No. 19
- Lodge type
- Private high-country lodge
- Destination
- Southern Alps
- Country or region
- New Zealand
- Management in 2026
- Mahu Whenua
- Opening year
- 2016