Manitoba Ski Resorts Ranked & Mapped

Manitoba has a small amount of ski hills and resorts, and most of them sit to the south near the US border with South Dakota.

List of All Manitoba Ski Resorts

Skiing can get expensive. Besides equipment rentals, ski lift passes are expensive and really add up if you have a family. To combat this, multi-resort, multi-day lift passes were created to help offset this cost a bit. Buying lift pass days in bulk will usually net you around a 20% discount. However, none of the resorts in Manitoba are connected with a multi-resort pass like this.

All ski hills in Manitoba are smaller than those in the surrounding provinces. No hill/resort has a vertical more than 500 ft (152 m).

Resort	Pass	Location
Asessippi Ski Area & Resort		Inglis, MB, R0J
Falcon Ridge Ski Slopes		Falcon Beach, MB, R0E
Holiday Mountain Resort		La Rivière, MB, R0G
Mystery Mountain Winter Park		Thompson, MB, R0B
Ski Valley		Minnedosa, MB, R0J
Springhill Winter Park		Springfield, MB, R5R
Stony Mountain Ski Area		Stony Mountain, MB, R0C
Thunder Hill Ski Area		Benito, MB, R0L

Explaining Our ‘Difficulty Score’

Parks & Trips created a proprietary Difficulty Score that is generated by looking at the number of easy-intermediate-expert slopes by acreage and the maximum vertical drop of the overall resort.

Our algorithm compares each resort’s metrics with all others in North America, then gives each a Difficulty Score, which we use to rank them accordingly. Resorts with a lower score are easier than those with a higher one. However, a high score does not mean that the resort does not have any easy slopes, or vice versa. This is just an overall score given to the resort based on all its metrics grouped together.

The Most Difficult Manitoba Ski Resorts

Mystery Mountain Winter Park is the hardest ski resort in Manitoba, and it is also the one that sits the farthest away from all the others. Located in the middle of the province near Thompson, this resort is rated around a 40% difficulty, which is less than half of other resorts we have data on.

Rank	Resort	Green Trails	Blue Trails	Black Trails	Difficulty Score^TM
#1	Mystery Mountain Winter Park	17%	50%	33%	38%
#2	Asessippi Ski Area & Resort	34%	33%	33%	35%
#3	Ski Valley	33%	44%	23%	30%
#4	Thunder Hill Ski Area	45%	32%	23%	28%
#5	Holiday Mountain Resort	32%	52%	16%	28%

The Easiest Ski Resorts in Manitoba

Falcon Ridge Ski Slopes is by far the easiest ski hill in Manitoba with zero difficult trails. Stony Mountain and Springhill are next in line here, and are pretty similar in just about every category.

Rank	Resort	Green Trails	Blue Trails	Black Trails	Difficulty Score^TM
#1	Falcon Ridge Ski Slopes	80%	20%	0%	6%
#2	Stony Mountain Ski Area	66%	17%	17%	17%
#3	Springhill Winter Park	50%	40%	10%	18%
#4	Holiday Mountain Resort	32%	52%	16%	28%
#5	Thunder Hill Ski Area	45%	32%	23%	28%

The Largest Ski Resorts in Manitoba

Choosing the largest ski resorts is a bit of a tricky proposition. Do you look at just the summit elevation? How about the total acreage, most trails, or steepest vertical drop?

Well, we decided to combine all four of those metrics into one ranking to get the best idea, although we fully admit this is completely subjective. We’ve given you all the data in the following table to make your own decision.

Asessippi Ski Area & Resort is the only Manitoba ski area with more than 100 skiable acres. It also has the most trails of any in the province. Ski Valley has the highest summit and base elevations. Thunder Hill has the steepest vertical by more than 60 ft (18 meters).

Rank	Resort	Summit Elevation	Base Elevation	Vertical Drop	Acres	Trails
#1	Asessippi Ski Area & Resort	553 m	432 m	121 m	200	25
#2	Thunder Hill Ski Area	573 m	436 m	137 m	60	22
#3	Holiday Mountain Resort	472 m	366 m	107 m	40	11
#4	Ski Valley	600 m	520 m	80 m	30	9
#5	Mystery Mountain Winter Park	264 m	188 m	76 m	30	18