Dakota Ridge Recreation Site is a ski area in Canada. The terrain spans roughly 1133–1133 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 6.5 km². Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 558 cm of snowfall a season, 51st of the 3,112 ski areas we measure worldwide. The model runs well below what resorts report, so the ranking is the meaningful part rather than the centimetre figure. The nearest city of any size is Vancouver, about 44 km away. 5 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.
Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.
We do not show a snow depth here. The weather model we use reports snow lying on the ground — it knows nothing about grooming or snowmaking, and it is not the base depth a ski area publishes. In Japan we can check our figures against 234 weather stations. Outside Japan there is nothing to check them against, so we do not print a number we have not verified. Snow report on the official site ↗
Score breakdown
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☁️ 26 Sept | 0 | 0.9 / 6.8 | 17.8 |
| ☁️ 27 Sept | 0 | 3.8 / 10.1 | 9.8 |
| 🌦️ 28 Sept | 0 | 4 / 9.8 | 10.2 |
| 🌧️ 29 Sept | 0 | 4.6 / 7.6 | 9.2 |
| 🌧️ 30 Sept | 0 | 6.4 / 8.1 | 5.9 |
| 🌧️ 1 Oct | 0 | 7.1 / 9.2 | 9.1 |
| ☁️ 2 Oct | 0 | 2.6 / 10.8 | 8.9 |
How much snow it gets
Measured by us across 3,112 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Compared with what is nearby
Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. Ski areas a few kilometres apart share a weather grid cell and can return the same figure.
| Ski area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cypress Mountain | 33 km | 287 cm | 542 |
| Grouse Mountain | 41 km | 591 cm | 45 |
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
Official piste map ↗More places to look
Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28