Grouse Mountain
Grouse Mountain Ski Resort is a ski area located in the province of British Columbia in Canada. The resort is in the town of North Vancouver, BC.
We recently ranked all of British Columbia's ski resorts, so you can see where Grouse Mountain stacks up against all its nearby ski hills!
Season Passes
Grouse Mountain is not a part of any nationwide lift ticket system. Passes such as Epic, IKON, or Mountain Collective allow pass holders to ski at multiple mountians with a single purchase. Unfortunately, none of those passes work with Grouse Mountain Ski Resort. To purchase season passes, you'll need to visit Grouse Mountain's website.
Lodging Options
There are numerous options to stay at Grouse Mountain around the resort. Check out the available options with the form below.
Grouse Mountain Mountain Resort Terrain Overview
Grouse Mountain has a total of 26 ski trails, which are serviced by 5 ski lifts, gondolas and/or trams. Grouse Mountain is considered a smaller than average ski area, with only a maximum of 212 acres available to ski. This area is equivalent to 86 hectares, 0.3 square miles, or 0.9 square kilometers.
Grouse Mountain's slopes see on average 350 inches (8.9 meters) of snowfall a year. That is almost 29 feet every year!
Total Runs
26
Lifts
5
Skiable Acres
212(1 km2)
Annual Snowfall
350"(889 cm)
Grouse Mountain Ski Resort Elevation
Grouse Mountain Ski Resort has a summit elevation of 4,100 feet, or 1,250 meters. However, not all of that elevation is able to be skied. The base of the ski slope sits at 2,890 feet above sea level, creating a ski hill that is 1,210 feet (369 meters) high. This is referred to as the slope's vertical drop - or a measure of how high the skiable hill is.
Grouse Mountain's summit elevation is higher than average. There are a lot of ski slopes that are much higher than this one (some stretch to 12,000 feet!), but it is not small by any stretch of the imagination.
Summit Elevation
4,100'(1,250 m)
Vertical Drop
1,210'(369 m)
Base Elevation
2,890'(881 m)
Grouse Mountain Ski Resort Difficulty Level
Difficulty Score™
43.5out of 100
DID YOU KNOW?
At Parks & Trips, we've created a proprietary Difficulty Score that attempts to show how difficult a particular ski slope is. We get to this number by combining a number of metrics for each resort and comparing them to its peers. Most of the score is based off the amount of easy-intermediate-expert slopes by acreage and the maximum vertical drop of the overall resort, but also includes a few lesser-used metrics as well.
Our algorithm compares each resort’s metrics with all others in North America, then assigns each a Difficulty Score, which we use to rank them accordingly. Resorts with a lower score are easier to ski 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.
Skiable Terrain by Difficulty Level
Grouse Mountain has 212 total skiable acres, which can be broken down into the three main groups of difficulty: Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert.
Grouse Mountain is a beginner-friendly ski area, with about 19% of its trails as easy. However, it also has a fair share of more difficult runs - which account for the remaining 82%.
Beginner
19%(39 acres)
Beginner trails (identified by a green circle) are the easiest trails on the hill with a gradual 25% or less gradient, and are usually wide to accommodate beginner skiers.
Intermediate
59%(124 acres)
Intermediate trails (identified by a blue square) are usually the most popular and crowded runs, which have a slope of anywhere between 25-40%.
Expert
23%(48 acres)
Expert trails (identified by a black diamond... or two) are the hardest slopes on the mountain, and have very steep gradients over 40%.
Is Grouse Mountain Ski Resort good for beginners?
Grouse Mountain can be beginner-friendly, depending on the runs you take. While it ranks in the lower half of all North American ski areas in terms of overall difficulty, it still has 82% of its trails rated at or above intermediate.
Grouse Mountain Ski Resort Location
Grouse Mountain Ski Resort is located in the province of British Columbia, Canada. This ski area is nearest the town of North Vancouver, BC.
Address:
North Vancouver, BC V7R Canada
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Website:
grousemountain.com
GPS Coordinates:
49.37024, -123.09869
Getting to Grouse Mountain Mountain Resort
By Car: If you are driving, you would set your GPS to either the ski resort's name (Grouse Mountain Ski Resort), its coordinates of 49.37024, -123.09869 (latitude, longitude), or simply drive towards the town of North Vancouver, BC to get close.
By Air: If you are coming in from across the country, then you may need to board an airplane to get here.
A large airport has scheduled major airline service with millions of passengers per year. This type of airport always accepts international flights. Here are the closest large airport(s) to Grouse Mountain Ski Resort.
| Name | Code | City | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vancouver International Airport | YVR | Vancouver, BC | 21 km |
| Seattle–Tacoma International Airport | SEA | Seattle, WA | 221 km |
A medium-sized airport has scheduled regional airline service. This type of airport may or may not accept international flights. Here are the closest medium-sized airport(s) to Grouse Mountain.
| Name | Code | City | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abbotsford International Airport | YXX | Abbotsford, BC | 66 km |
| Nanaimo Airport | YCD | Nanaimo, BC | 66 km |
| Bellingham International Airport | BLI | Bellingham, WA | 76 km |
There may also be much smaller regional airports next to Grouse Mountain Ski Resort, but we didn't list them here due to the fact that no major airlines go through them.
Other Nearby Ski Resorts
Skiers will - especially if coming from far away - try and visit a couple different slopes all in the same trip. Here are the closest other ski slopes within 100 miles of Grouse Mountain Ski Resort.
| Name | Location | Summit | Difficulty Score™ | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cypress Mountain | West Vancouver North, BC | 4,751 ft | 62% | 8 km |
| Mount Seymour | North Vancouver, BC | 4,150 ft | 35% | 10 km |
| Whistler Blackcomb | Whistler, BC | 7,494 ft | 87% | 83 km |
| Sasquatch Mountain | Agassiz, BC | 4,501 ft | 54% | 84 km |
| Mt. Baker | Deming, WA | 5,000 ft | 48% | 114 km |
| Hurricane Ridge | Port Angeles, WA | 5,500 ft | 48% | 158 km |
Grouse Mountain Ski Resort Mountain Stats
| Name | Statistic |
|---|---|
| Summit Elevation | 4,100 ft |
| Base Elevation | 2,890 ft |
| Vertical Drop | 1,210 ft |
| Trails | 26 (19% Beginner, 59% Intermediate, 23% Expert) |
| Lifts | 5 |
| Skiable Acres | 212 |
| Avg. Annual Snowfall | 350 inches |