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Winter Activities

Winter Wonderland

Pull on your woolies, grab your shades and get out here! Winter in Golden has so many incredible opportunities, you’re gonna need a raging blindside blizzard to keep you indoors!

WOW, I DIDN'T KNOW THAT...

Golden and Kicking Horse Country is home to the highest concentration of Powder Providers (including ski resorts, backcountry touring huts, helicopter and cat-skiing operations, and snowmobile outfitters) in the world. Count with us:

 

  • Average of 10 m(32ft) of fantastic champagne powder in surrounding 3 mountain ranges – Purcells, Selkirks and Rockies
  • The birthplace of Heli skiing, The Bugaboos, is in our backyard
  • 4 Heli skiing operators
  • 1 cat skiing operator
  • More than 20 backcountry lodges with great ski touring terrain – the highest concentration of backcountry lodges in North America
  • Famous Rogers Pass, ski touring capital of the world, is only 78 km from Golden
  • 13 snowmobiling areas
  • 4 snowmobile guiding outfitters
  • Direct access to numerous peaks and valleys of ski touring slackcountry from Kicking Horse Mountain Resort, just 15min drive from downtown Golden
  • Legendary Kicking Horse Mountain Resort (KHMR) with its quality powder and astounding vertical

     

    Canada’s highest concentration of world-class ski resorts can be day-tripped from Golden. Kicking Horse Mountain Resort is only 15 min. from downtown, and 4 other resorts are within a 1½ - 2 hour drive: Lake Louise, Sunshine, Revelstoke and Panorama.

    KHMR has the highest elevation of any ski resort in BC. The summit sits at 2450m / 8,033’.

    Heli skiing was born in the mountains near Golden, BC in 1965. Hans Gmoser pioneered the first ever commercial heli skiing in the Purcell Mountains' Bugaboo Range. Thus Canadian Mountain Holidays (CMH) was born. Just 8 year later Golden had its own heli skiing company. Today 4 heli skiing and 1 cat skiing operators guide guests in the mountains around Golden, BC.

     

     

     

     

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