 Although it is almost entirely New Zealand Crown land and a protected Outstanding Landscape Area, several large farm stations have legally run stock on the Benmore Range for more than a century, including Ben Omar, Benmore, Buscot, Glenbrook, Glencairn, Peak Valley and Totara Peak.Benmore Peak Observatory (BPO) is sited on privately owned land at the summit plateau.The facility has instruments and structures for astronomy and meteorology at the peak and down to the 1,830 m (6,002 ft) level.