Powder Highway · mountains

Live snow conditions, lift status, and weather for mountains and ski resorts in the Powder Highway.

  • Revelstoke Mountain Resort — North America's longest lift-served vertical · 1,713 m top to bottom on Mt Mackenzie
  • Kicking Horse — Champagne powder capital · four alpine bowls and 85 inbounds chutes above Golden
  • Fernie Alpine Resort — Five alpine bowls in the Lizard Range · one of the biggest snow tallies in the Rockies
  • Whitewater — Independent Kootenay hill · minimal grooming, huge natural snowfall, touring gates
  • Kimberley Alpine Resort — Sunny, uncrowded cruisers on North Star Mountain · long lit night runs
  • Panorama — 1,300 m of Purcell vertical · Taynton Bowl steeps above long groomed descents
  • Sun Peaks Resort — Canada's second-largest ski area · Tod, Sundance and Morrisey linked by lift

Base towns

  • Revelstoke — Railway town on the Columbia · ~10 min to the gondola base
  • Golden — Trans-Canada town in the Columbia Valley · ~20 min up to Kicking Horse
  • Fernie — Brick-built Elk Valley town under the Three Sisters · ~5 km to the lifts
  • Nelson — Heritage arts town on Kootenay Lake · ~20 min up to Whitewater
  • Kimberley — Bavarian-themed Rockies town · ~5 min from the Kimberley Alpine base
  • Invermere — Columbia Valley lake town · ~20 min up Toby Creek Road to Panorama
  • Sun Peaks — Ski-through village 45 min above Kamloops · lifts leave from the main street