Revelstoke Ski Resort is a ski area located in the province of British Columbia in Canada. The resort is in the town of Revelstoke, BC. We recently ranked all of British Columbia's ski resorts, so you can see where Revelstoke stacks up against all its nearby ski hills!
Revelstoke is a part of the Ikon Ski Pass network. This allows you to buy one lift pass, and ski at all or most of the Ikon-sponsored slopes with it throughout the year, depending on the type of pass you bought.
Revelstoke is a part of the Mountain Collective network. This allows you to buy one lift pass, and ski at all of the slopes that are also a part of the Collective.
Revelstoke Lodging:
Revelstoke Ski Resort Terrain Overview
Revelstoke has a total of 99 ski trails, which are serviced by 6 ski lifts, gondolas and/or trams. The amount of skiable area in this park is huge, with a maximum of 3,121 acres available to skiers. This area is equivalent to 1,263 hectares, 5 square miles, or 13 square kilometers.
Revelstoke's slopes see on average 413 inches (163 cm) of snowfall a year. That is almost 34 feet a year!
Total Runs
99
Lifts
6
Skiable Acres
3,121(13 km2)
Annual Snowfall
413"(163 cm)
Revelstoke Ski Resort Elevation
Revelstoke Ski Resort has a summit elevation of 7,300 feet, or 2,225 meters. However, not all of that elevation is able to be skied. The base of the ski slope sits at 1,680 feet above sea level, creating a ski hill that is 5,620 feet (1,713 meters) high. This is referred to as the slope's vertical drop - or a measure of how high the skiable hill is.
Revelstoke'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
7,300'(2,225 m)
Vertical Drop
5,620'(1,713 m)
Base Elevation
1,680'(512 m)
Revelstoke Ski Resort Difficulty Level
Difficulty Score™
97.1out 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.
Skiiable Area by Difficulty Level
Revelstoke has 3,121 total skiable acres, which can be broken down into the three main groups of difficulty: Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert.
Seeing as Revelstoke is one of the hardest ski areas in the country, it's no surprise that over 88% of its trails rated as either intermediate or expert-level. This leaves only 12% of its skiable acres for the beginners.
Beginner
12%(375 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
43%(1,342 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
45%(1,404 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 Revelstoke Ski Resort good for beginners?
This is one of the hardest ski areas in the country to ski at, so it is not great for beginners. Revelstoke Ski Resort ranks in the top 10% of the most-difficult ski resorts in the country. It has 45% of its trails rated as expert, or black-diamond level.
Revelstoke Ski Resort Location
Revelstoke Ski Resort is located in the province of British Columbia, Canada. This ski area is nearby the town of Revelstoke, BC.
Address:
Revelstoke, BC V0E Canada
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Website:
revelstokemountainresort.com/
GPS Coordinates:
50.95800, -118.16500
Getting to Revelstoke Ski Resort
By Car: If you are driving, you would set your GPS to either the ski resort's name (Revelstoke Ski Resort), its coordinates of 50.95800, -118.16500 (latitude, longitude), or simply drive towards the town of Revelstoke, 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 Revelstoke Ski Resort.
| Name | Code | City | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calgary International Airport | YYC | Calgary, AB | 290 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 Revelstoke.
| Name | Code | City | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kelowna International Airport | YLW | Kelowna, BC | 141 km |
| Kamloops Airport | YKA | Kamloops, BC | 162 km |
| Castlegar/West Kootenay Regional Airport | YCG | Castlegar, BC | 188 km |
There may also be much smaller regional airports next to Revelstoke 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 Revelstoke Ski Resort.
| Name | Location | Summit | Difficulty Score™ | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kicking Horse | Golden, BC | 8,033 ft | 82% | 86 km |
| Silverstar Mountain | Spallumcheen, BC | 6,283 ft | 62% | 92 km |
| Sovereign Lake Nordic Center | Vernon, BC | 6,060 ft | 32% | 94 km |
| Summit Lake Ski Area | Nakusp, BC | 3,018 ft | 11% | 96 km |
| Sun Peaks | Sun Peaks, BC | 7,060 ft | 65% | 121 km |
| Harper Mountain | Kamloops, BC | 5,000 ft | 43% | 141 km |
| Panorama Mountain Village | Panorama, BC | 7,875 ft | 71% | 146 km |
| Big White Ski | Kelowna, BC | 7,606 ft | 56% | 148 km |
| Lake Louise | Lake Louise, AB | 8,652 ft | 64% | 149 km |
| Clearwater Ski Hill | Clearwater, BC | 4,100 ft | 26% | 150 km |
Revelstoke Ski Resort Mountain Stats
| Name | Statistic |
|---|---|
| Summit Elevation | 7,300 ft |
| Base Elevation | 1,680 ft |
| Vertical Drop | 5,620 ft |
| Trails | 99 (12% Beginner, 43% Intermediate, 45% Expert) |
| Lifts | 6 |
| Skiable Acres | 3,121 |
| Avg. Annual Snowfall | 413 inches |