Canada

Horseshoe Valley Resort

Off season

No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear once snow is on the ground or forecast.

Typical snowfall
127cm

A weather-model figure, worked out the same way for every ski area, and lower than what actually falls. Use it to compare ski areas, not against the resort’s own totals. How we measure →

Elevation
312–402 m
Across
1.3 km

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.

Horseshoe Valley Resort, in Canada, runs from 312 m at the base to 402 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.3 km across, with 31 marked runs and 7 lifts (about 9 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 127 cm of snowfall a season, 2,001st (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 113th in Canada. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2024/25 (180 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (90 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (37 and 37 cm on average).

How much snow it gets

Modelled from weather data the same way at all 3,069 ski areas we cover. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
127cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
90cm
The middle winter of the 12: 127 cm. The best: 180 cm.
World rank
2001
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
113
of 171 in Canada
Elevation rank
123
Highest to lowest, of 171 in Canada. The centre point sits at 332 m, 205 m below the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km in a straight line. Ski areas in the same weather-model cell (about 30 km across) get the same figure.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
The Heights Ski & Country Club1.0 km127 cmsame grid cell2001
Snow Valley Ski Resort18.0 km112 cm2208
Devil's Glen Country Club47.0 km140 cm1801
Highlands Nordic48.0 km144 cm1745
Mansfield Ski Club49.0 km120 cm2091

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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Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

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 · 0.2 km
Easy 5 · 1.8 km
Intermediate 15 · 4.5 km
Advanced 6 · 1.8 km
Expert 2 · 0.5 km
Other 2 · 0.1 km

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.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in December. March brings 49% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Canada (79%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 18 cm, less than the median of 32 cm.

37cm
Dec
37cm
Jan
35cm
Feb
18cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 127 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 90 cm; the biggest was 2024/25 with 180 cm (2.0 times as much). For 28% of the 171 ski areas in Canada the leanest winter was 2014/15; here it was a different one.

93
90
131
107
109
131
125
128
164
95
180
173
14/1515/1616/1717/1818/1919/2020/2121/2222/2323/2424/2525/26

Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.

Map

The weather map, and where it sits among nearby ski areas.

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