Silver Star, Canada - BC

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Silver Star summary

Silver Star is a place where memorable holidays happen all year round. The resort offers stunning skiing, thrilling mountain biking, breathtaking scenery, colourful Victorian architecture, wonderful curiosity shops and restaurants, and fantastic people - people who love to call Silver Star "my mountain". By day, there's heaps of mountain to explore; by night, there's plenty of après-ski entertainment for little kids, teenagers and the young at heart. Blanketed annually by seven metres (23 feet) of dry, feather-light champagne powder, Silver Star is a huge mountain with three distinct faces and 115 runs, bowls and gladed areas. The comfortable average daytime temperatures of ‐5 C (27 F), is cold enough to keep the snow light and fluffy, yet perfect for skiing, riding, cross country skiing and other winter activities. With its long, beautifully manicured runs, quiet, open slopes, and panoramic views, Vance Creek is the most popular area on the mountain. But it's not all laid back, here, you'll find the TELUS Terrain Park, packed with rails, monster jumps, and a half pipe. Accessed via the Powder Gulch Express, Putnam Creek features over forty thigh-burning runs for intermediates and experts. Silver Star's snowcat crew specializes in winch cat grooming, even on some of its steepest runs. Serviced by its very own highspeed quad, Silver Woods features fall line intermediate runs, gladed meadows. The Silver Queen lift services uncrowded beginner/intermediate terrain, while the Attridge Quad provides access to 'local's only' powder stashes. If you're a Nordic skier, make tracks to the Silver Star Nordic Center, where over 100 km (60 miles) of groomed and trackset trails winding throughout the resort and at the neighbouring Sovereign Lake Nordic Centre. Silver Star Mountain Resort is incredibly easy to get to – less than an hour's shuttle from the Kelowna International Airport, which enjoys non‐stop direct service from many Canadian and international cities.

Resorts close to Silver Star include: Big White (66 km), Sun Peaks (86 km), Revelstoke Mountain Resort (94 km), Apex Mountain (126 km), CMH Galena (127 km),

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	Trails (Pistes): 115	Halfpipes: 2
	Summit: 1916 m	Toplift: m
	Beg: 20% Int: 50% Adv: 30%	Terrain Parks: 1
	Vertical Drop: 760 m	X-Country: 105 km
	Lifts: 12 lifts	Snowmaking: No
	Gondolas / Cable Cars: N	Slopeside accom.: Y
	Restaurants: 13	Acres of ski: 3065
	Bars: 5	Nearest Airport: Kelowna
	Nearest Train: Salmon Arm	Info phone: +12505420224 \| Silver Star Resort Info Website

Visitor Reviews of Silver Star

A Bond from UNITED KINGDOM writes:

Had 3 days skiing in Feb 2009 at Silver Star and very enjoyable it was too. Silver Star has small acreage but is well spaced out & arranged so there is a good sense of travelling around and each area has its own feeling: Silver Woods area has nice short cruisy blues and trees/glades to play in, Powder Gulch is a better mix of blues and blacks (some genuine double blacks here), Attridge is a bit stuck out of the way but because of that was always empty with nice tree runs and good snow; main quad lift area mostly longer cruisy blues.
There is a massive terrain park at Silver Star with full range of ramps/rails/hits for beginners and gnarly dudes. Only complaint would be that the park is not served by its own lift so you have to ride down to the bottom of the main quad, ride it all back up again and go half way down to the start of the park. Vertical is limited but fast lifts do their best to help out to achieve big vertical over the day's skiing. Village is tiny at Silver Star - this is a one street town - but has all you need: 4 bars/restaurants, each with a different atmosphere. Long Johns always popular with down to earth feel, very extensive menu & extensive BC wine list. The Saloon is a massive place with pool table, table hockey (this is Canada after all) and big screen tv, reasonable menu but fairly standard grub. The Den is cosy with daily changing menus; good grub when I ate there. Bulldog Hotel tries to be more sophisticated and has commensurately more expensive food menu; ribs must be eaten to be believed. All offered apres-ski special deals on food/booze. On the mountain at Silver Star, there is the Paradise Camp under the Powder Gulch lift which serves breakfast from 9.30am and lunches from 11am. Only managed brekkie there (which was always filling) but lunch menu looked attractive - bulk and quality can't be beaten. Outside the 'village' there was little to be done, so I recommend staying as close as possible if you want 'apres' or evening drinks/nibbles.
This is a great beginners resort & I can see why they market themselves at Silver Star as a 'family resort' but even adventurous intermediates could enjoy 3 or so days here without being bored. Longer than that would not satisfy. For visitors from Britain, depending on your ski level/time available, I would recommend combining this with another resort for a 7/10 day trip. I would suggest Big White or Sun Peaks for twinning.

2009-02-09

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