A wonderful family friendly mountain. Great summer venues and hiking. The best skiing in Canada, dry snow and sunny skies most of the winter.
If you don't like travelling long distances with a couple of flights then stick to Europe! If you don't mind the travel and what a 3 fantastic hills and awesome snow then Sun Peaks has everything. Even with a lack of snow in BC this year, the grooming has been first class and the skiing has been great. If you want nightlife and bars like Whistler, go to Whistler. Sun Peaks is friendly and cosy. Have been here 5 times in the last 9 years (only started skiing 9 years ago), think that speaks for itself.
This has been a bad snow year in Western .Canada., Sun Peaks included. But their excellent grooming has made it possible for all four of us, of varying ability, to have a really pleasant ski holiday.
I like everything about sunpeaks even though Im not a skier, the scenery, the people, the resturants and pubs, golfing, summer ..concerts, lots of activities and ski races throughout the winter, year round really, local talent, all the local shops up there for the tourists and the locals to, just a great place for the tourists from all over the world and our locals to
It was like skiing in Europe with mega slopes you ski anywhere you liked. Trail layer out so that low level skiers and expert skiers could me to ski together all day long.
I am not a skier so I cannot comment on that aspect but the slopes appeared to challenging and well groomed. Aside from the skiing, there appeared very little to interest someone looking for a simple diversion for the day.
But looks like it would be a great mountain with good coverage and even some powder. Complimentary tours are a great thing to take advantage of, very friendly and informative hosts.
Our second trip here from Australia. Definitely worth the distance travelled. Quaint village with plenty of ski in out options. Family, group, couple friendly. Good restaurants. A couple of pubs...no clubs! And then there are the mountains... 1 village, 3 mountains to ski. Even though the snow hasn't been the best this year, there are heaps of runs available for all abilities. Blue skies, wide sweeping slopes....what's not to love????
Not a great year to try a new place but we did. We usually go to Whistler, but wanted to check out this place. With more snow think it would be great but trying to figure out the runs with so little snow was difficult. We didn't stay on the mountain so not sure about the lodges, wasn't very impressed with the food choices for lunch on the mountain, but didn't go hungry either. Prices were defiantly cheaper than Whistler, will defiantly have to try it again!
I was expecting this to be a very beginner/intermediate oriented mountain, which it is. But there's actually some really fun terrain and little hikes up top for advanced skiers and riders too. Their park is also out of this world and the village is pretty ballin'.LET IT SNOW! :)