Cypress Mountain Resort Guide

The Cypress Mountain resort summary is: Cypress Mountain has 9 lifts within its 242 Hectares of terrain that is suitable for all levels, including terrain park enthusiasts. Find location, trail maps and piste maps covering the mountains 613m of vertical range and surrounding area. There are 53 trail at Cypress Mountain.


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Cypress Mountain Resort Guide

The Cypress Mountain resort summary is: Cypress Mountain has 9 lifts within its 242 Hectares of terrain that is suitable for all levels, including terrain park enthusiasts. Find location, trail maps and piste maps covering the mountains 613m of vertical range and surrounding area. There are 53 trail at Cypress Mountain.

Vertical:

Top: 1439m
Arrow
613m
Bot: 826m

Best for:

Advanced level skier
Intermediates/
Advanced

Trails:

53
26%
25%
49%

Hectares of Ski:

242
Snowmaking: Yes

Cypress Mountain Lifts:

  • drag lift icon3
  • ski lift icon6
  • cablecar icon
Total lifts = 9
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Visiting Cypress Mountain

Helpful resort information to assist planning your trip to Cypress Mountain.

  • Season opens
    11 Nov 2023
  • Season closes
    14 Apr 2024
  • Accommodation
  • Restaurants | Bars
    3 | 1
  • Nearest Airport
    Vancouver
  • Nearest Train Station
    Vancouver
  • Tourist Office Website
  • Tourist Office Phone
    +1/604/926/5612

Cypress Mountain Features

The terrain at Cypress Mountain includes::

  • Halfpipes
    N
  • Terrain Parks
    Yes
  • X-Country
    19.0 km
  • Ski Hire

What's it like at Cypress Mountain resort?

Cypress Mountain, official freestyle skiing and snowboarding venue for the 2010 Winter Olympic games. Located in West Vancouver, B.C., Canada, Cypress Mountain is only 30 minutes from downtown Vancouver and is proud to continue to provide our skiers, riders and sliders with the most vertical drop, most terrain, most lifts and best snow conditions on the highest skiing and riding peak of Vancouver's Legendary North Shore Mountains. With the best winter skiing & riding in Vancouver, Canada's most popular cross country skiing area, a huge snow-tubing park and our unique snowshoeing tours, Cypress Mountain truly offers something for everyone.


Explore Cypress Mountain Location Map

Interactive Cypress Mountain trail map and piste map. View the piste and trails as well as the surrounding terrain and mountain contours for backcountry action. Find and compare nearby resorts by clicking on the resort markers.

Cypress Mountain Live Weather

ResortSnow DepthTemp. (°C)Wind (km/h)Weather
Top Lift: 0.0m
17
5
clear
Middle Lift: 
17
5
clear
Bottom Lift: 0.0m
15
5
clear

When's the snowiest month to visit Cypress Mountain?

DecemberAverage: 5.0 snow days per week
The snowiest week in Cypress Mountain is week 3 of December. There are typically 5.0 snowy days during this week with 50cm of snowfall. Check out the Cypress Mountain Snow History graphs below.


Visitor Reviews of Cypress Mountain

Overall: 3.3 Based on 126 votes and 113 reviews

  • Snowsure 3.6
  • Variety of pistes 3.8
  • Off-piste 3.0
  • Scenery 4.3
  • Apres-Ski 3.0
  • Vote

MD from Canada writes:

A comment below sums up the mentality that must be present amongst Cypress management. Classic moronic customer-blaming for very valid complaints.

Obviously, not going to address idiotic suggestion to "just get better" to deal with marginal conditions.

The price did not reflect the amount of quality skiing that could be done this season. And if this is a climate change issue, then the price should be lowered going forward to reflect the crappy skiing on offer.

Getting parking is a nightmare, I've turned up at 8am before and still ended up in the overflow. This whole argument of being early is stupid, the resort should provide sufficient parking for people to be able to show up any time of the day without having to spend an hour walking through knee deep snow. If this is not happening, they clearly sold too many passes/tickets, sacrificing customer experience to make more money.

Passes didn't work year round, not just in January. Pass lineups in November were massive too. It's a sign of complete negligence that nobody made sure that peoples passes will work on opening day.

As for staffing issues, this is always the fault of the employer. Salaries at Cypress were too low and the working conditions were crap. They failed to secure enough workers. Other local mountains didn't experience the same staffing issues this season. And yes, Cypress makes more than enough money to pay their workers more.

My take on Cypress is that it's a greedy operation. You are a cash cow here and they will happily prevent you from enjoying yourself if it means they can make more money.

Finally, the proximity of the mountains to the city in no way invalidates these valid issues with them. Each NS mountain charges big resort rates. If I'm paying 600 for a season pass, I expect 600 worth of value.

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