BOW VALLEY – Ski hills open this week in Banff National Park and Kananaskis Country.
Sunshine Village Ski Resort will be the first to open Thursday (Nov. 3); Lake Louise Ski Resort opens Friday (Nov. 4), and Nakiska Ski Area and Mount Norquay Ski Resort have Saturday (Nov. 5) as tentative opening days.
Thursday, oh THURSDAY, we’ll SKI YA on THURSDAY!!
— Sunshine Village (@SunshineVillage) November 1, 2022
You read that correct. We will open for the 2022-23 ski season on Thursday, November 3rd.
Thanks to the generous snowfall over the past week we can now *gleefully* say we will open THIS Thursday.
*Photo from last year* pic.twitter.com/57zhHHGa03
🚨 It's official! 🚨 Winter Opening Day is CONFIRMED for Friday November 4! Get your pass, do some warm-up laps off Glacier Chair, and grab lunch at the Powder Keg Lounge. First 100 people in the lift-line get a surprise! Will we see you there? 🎉 #lakelouise #skilouise pic.twitter.com/W0R7T6Bq7c
— Lake Louise Ski Resort & Summer Gondola (@SkiLouise) November 1, 2022
Mt. Norquay, adjacent to the Banff townsite, will make a call Thursday (Nov. 3) if it will open one run and one lift, Cascade Quad.
"Cold temperatures required for snow making and natural snowfall make this all weather dependant," said Andre Quenneville, general manager at Norquay in an email.
Banff National Park and Kananaskis Country are expected to have periods of snow and flurries until at least Sunday (Nov. 6), according to Environment Canada.
Pumping out the equivalent of 5 Olympic sized pools of snow a day. NBD #glowup #skiclose #winterishere #nakiska #kananaskis pic.twitter.com/1SC82XcMww
— Nakiska Ski Area (@SkiNakiska) October 26, 2022
