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Horseshoe Valley Resort

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Horseshoe Valley Resort is a ski area in Canada. It sits at about 332 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.3 km². Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 149 cm of snowfall a season, 1587th (tied) 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. 15 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

Snow 24h
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Snow 48h
0cm
Next 24h
0cm
Next 72h
0cm
Temperature
14.7℃
Max wind
16.8km/h
Elevation
332m
Area
1.3km²

Elevation of the ski area’s centre point, taken from a digital elevation model. It is not the base-to-summit range.

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.

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 8/10
Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
☁️ 26 Sept 0 7.8 / 20.3 12.7
☁️ 27 Sept 0 10.4 / 20.3 16.8
☁️ 28 Sept 0 11.7 / 22.7 13.9
☁️ 29 Sept 0 14 / 21.3 11.4
🌧️ 30 Sept 0 12.9 / 21.6 16.8
🌦️ 1 Oct 0 14.4 / 18.5 18.5
☁️ 2 Oct 0 7.9 / 16.6 18.2

Runs and lifts

Counted from the runs and lifts drawn on OpenStreetMap, within the boundary of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Marked runs
31
Run length
9km
Lifts
7
Vertical
90m
Top 402 m · base 312 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvancedOther Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

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The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map0.5 km
Steepest pitch21°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.6°

Which way the slopes face

North 69%
East 27%
South 1%
West 3%

96% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.

By difficulty

Novice 1
Easy 5
Intermediate 15
Advanced 6
Expert 2
Other 2

Lift types

  • Chairlift4
  • Magic carpet3

See past trail maps on Skimap.org ↗

Source: OpenSkiMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Vertical is the difference between the highest and lowest points of the mapped runs and lifts.

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.

Seasonal snowfall
149 cm
per season
Range over three winters
85 cm
95–180 cm. The best winter was 1.9x the worst.
World rank
1587
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
77
of 172 in Canada
Elevation rank
124
Highest to lowest, of 172 in Canada. The centre point sits at 332 m, 205 m below the national median.

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 areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
The Heights Ski & Country Club1.0 km149 cm1587
Snow Valley Ski Resort18 km128 cm1830
Devil's Glen Country Club47 km152 cm1549
Highlands Nordic48 km148 cm1597
Mansfield Ski Club49 km130 cm1803

Map

Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.

More places to look

Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28

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