Nestled against the northern end of New Zealand’s Southern Alps, Glazebrook Station is the destination for trophy hunters who enjoy challenging hunting amid breathtaking scenery. Here, they will find wild herds of red deer, fallow deer, chamois, goats and pigs freely wandering 23,000 acres of some of the steepest and most magnificent mountain views New Zealand has to offer.
The Hunting Report first reported on Glazebrook Station in 2007, when a subscriber returned with a rave review on the operation’s first hunting season. (See Article ID 2066 in our online database.) Formerly a sheep and cattle station, Glazebrook had just been purchased the year before by the US-based Westervelt Sporting Lodges. That company acquired a number of properties and hunting operations in New Zealand, Argentina and Canada with the goal of creating a global network of high quality hunting lodges. (See Article ID 1622.) For the last few years, the company has focused on Glazebrook’s management of wild game populations, eliminating all the sheep and significantly reducing the cattle. From my perspective, however, what really makes Glazebrook unique is the high country hunting experience provided by its location.....
