Cypress Mountain

Cypress Mountain was the Official Freestyle Skiing and Snowboard Venue for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Cypress is only 30 minutes from downtown Vancouver and is proud to continue to provide our skiers, riders and sliders with the most vertical drop, most terrain, most lifts and best snow conditions on the highest skiing and riding peak of Vancouver's Legendary North Shore Mountains.

With unparalleled terrain and the largest vertical rise on the North Shore , Cypress Mountain is Vancouver 's premier winter playground. Cypress has 52 downhill winter skiing and riding runs accessed by 6 chairlifts and 2 surface lifts, 19km of track set cross country trails, a snowtubing park with a tube tow lift and amazingly popular snowshoeing tours around the Historic Hollyburn Lodge built in 1926.

Fast Facts

Average Annual Snowfall:
At Base Lodge Elevation (910 m), 622 cm (20 feet)

Summit Elevation: 1,447 meters (4,750 feet)
Vertical Drop: 521 meters (1,710 feet)
Skiable Terrain: 600 hectars (1482 acres)

Facility Specs

Year completed 1984 Seating capacity 20000 Parking capacity 2000 Medical room Yes Warm up area Yes Licensed for alcohol Yes Official rooms Food services Yes Dressing rooms

Scoreboard Sound system Yes Owner Private Office space Yes Weight room / fitness facility No Equipment storage Yes Ticket box Yes Media room Yes Internet capability Hospitality room Yes

Hosting Portfolio

Official Freestyle Skiing and Snowboard Venue for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games
Freestyle Skiing FIS World Cup
Snowboard FIS World Cup
Canadian Series Freestyle Skiing
Freestyle Skiing Nationals

Weather Information

Average Winter Temperature: -1 Celcius

Facility Contact

Kathleen Campbell
Executive Director
Vancouver's North Shore Tourism Association
604-960-0785
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More Information

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