These four ski towns in Canada are as quirky as they are cool. They’re also a steal compared with ski resorts in the U.S.
the last 15 winters, on and off, flitting around the world’s great ski towns, from the Swiss Alps to theto the Chilean Andes. With this winter’s flurries of Covid travel restrictions and surging lift prices across the U.S., I stayed in my native Canada this season. And I realized that the covetable combination of first-rate skiing, fabulous scenery and small-town coziness that I’d sought inWhat’s your favorite hidden gem ski destination? Join the conversation below.
For my first trip of the season in mid-December, I set out for a place I’d never been: Canmore, Alberta. From Toronto, it’s about a four-hour flight to Calgary International Airport, the closest major hub. Cradled in the Rocky Mountains, Canmore is within a half-hour’s drive of Banff and less than an hour from Lake Louise. My cousin Kent, a ski pro who lives in Calgary, insists that Canmore, which is largely free of touristy kerfuffle, beats those more famous spots as a place to stay.
THE OTHER ROCKIES Banff Sunshine Village, among Alberta’s top ski areas, averages about 30 feet of snow per season.Canmore is home, according to its local paper, to more Olympians per capita than anywhere else on earth. It’s small enough—about 15,000 people—that after spending three days there, I had already started recognizing faces and nodding to them as I walked up the aptly named Main Street.
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