Saskatchewan Ski Resorts Ranked & Mapped

Saskatchewan has less ski resorts than either of its neighboring provinces to the east and west. This is due to it being dead center of the flat Canadian Shield region.

List of All Saskatchewan 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 ski areas in Saskatchewan are associated with any multi-resort pass like this.

All ski resorts in Saskatchewan are located near the middle of the state, around the major cities of Saskatoon and Regina.

Resort	Pass	Location
Duck Mountain Ski Area		Kamsack, SK, S0A
Mission Ridge Winter Park		Fort Qu’Appelle, SK, S0G
Optimist Hill		Saskatoon, SK, S7J
Ski Timber Ridge		Big River, SK, S0J
Table Mountain		Battleford, SK, S0M
Wapiti Valley Ski Resort		Waipiti Valley, SK, S0E

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 Saskatchewan Ski Resorts

Mission Ridge Winter Park is the hardest ski area in Saskatchewan because 50% of its trails are rated “expert” level. Duck Mountain is the second-hardest ski area in the province. Table Mountain has the highest vertical drop, despite being considered the easiest in Saskatchewan.

Rank	Resort	Green Trails	Blue Trails	Black Trails	Difficulty Score^TM
#1	Mission Ridge Winter Park	25%	25%	50%	43%
#2	Duck Mountain Ski Area	25%	50%	25%	33%
#3	Wapiti Valley Ski Resort	33%	50%	17%	28%
#4	Ski Timber Ridge	50%	25%	25%	26%
#5	Table Mountain	61%	34%	5%	15%

The Easiest Ski Resorts in Saskatchewan

Despite having the highest vertical drop in the province, Table Mountain actually comes out as our easiest Saskatchewan ski area due to its very low number of overall trails and its low percentage of expert-rated ones. It also has a 100 m vertical drop that happens to be the steepest in the province, however, in reality this is a negligible height and not really expert-level at all.

Rank	Resort	Green Trails	Blue Trails	Black Trails	Difficulty Score^TM
#1	Table Mountain	61%	34%	5%	15%
#2	Ski Timber Ridge	50%	25%	25%	26%
#3	Wapiti Valley Ski Resort	33%	50%	17%	28%
#4	Duck Mountain Ski Area	25%	50%	25%	33%
#5	Mission Ridge Winter Park	25%	25%	50%	43%

The Largest Ski Resort in Saskatchewan

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.

Every ski area in this province is very small, all clocking in with under 30 skiable acres. However, if we had to choose a winner, it would be Table Mountain due to it having the steepest vertical drop and highest summit/base elevations.

Rank	Resort	Summit Elevation	Base Elevation	Vertical Drop	Acres	Trails
#1	Table Mountain	600 m	500 m	100 m	45	11
#2	Mission Ridge Winter Park	560 m	480 m	80 m	25	14
#3	Duck Mountain Ski Area	305 m	206 m	99 m	25	20
#4	Wapiti Valley Ski Resort	310 m	220 m	90 m	25	12
#5	Ski Timber Ridge	274 m	197 m	78 m	45	20