
Selwyn Resort
Discover the perfect family ski destination at Selwyn Snow Resort. Ideal for beginners and intermediates, featuring modern facilities and excellent snow sports school programs.
Selwyn Snow Resort offers a family-focused alpine experience in the northern Snowy Mountains, making it ideal for beginners and young families. Following comprehensive rebuilding after the 2019-2020 bushfires, Selwyn reopened in 2022 with modern facilities while maintaining its approachable atmosphere. The resort features gentle, wide slopes perfect for learning, alongside dedicated toboggan areas and snow play zones. With affordable lift passes and lesson packages, Selwyn provides an excellent entry point to snow sports without overwhelming new participants. Its modest size fosters a friendly community feel where staff know regular visitors by name.
Selwyn Resort is a small, family-oriented snow area in the northern part of Kosciuszko National Park, with around 45 hectares of terrain between 1,492 and 1,614 metres, a vertical of 122 metres. Its 15 runs are gentle by design: 40% beginner, 47% intermediate and 13% advanced, with no expert terrain. The mountain is low, short and wide, so it plays to learners and young children rather than speed-seekers. The shallow gradient also keeps things simple for parents following kids around, and the layout is easy to understand on a first visit, with no complicated connections to navigate.
Chairs and surface lifts serve the slopes, and snowmaking helps keep the lower runs in condition. The longest descents are short and mellow, ideal for repeated laps and technique work. Two terrain parks offer a small freestyle introduction, and a dedicated tubing area gives non-skiers an alternative on the snow. Selwyn suits first-timers, families with young children and beginner to low-intermediate skiers who want a relaxed day. Advanced skiers will find the 13% advanced share limited and short, so they are better served by larger, steeper mountains nearby. Think of it as a place to learn.
The Selwyn snow season typically runs from late June to early September, with peak conditions usually occurring in July and August. The resort sits at a base elevation of 1,492 metres, receiving approximately 1-1.5 metres of natural snowfall annually, supplemented by modern snowmaking across key areas. Outside winter, Selwyn transforms into a mountain biking and bushwalking destination from November through April. The Kosciuszko National Park setting delivers spectacular alpine meadows filled with wildflowers during summer months, offering visitors year-round natural attractions beyond the snow season.
Daily snow reports at Selwyn Resort go back to 2025. Open the record to compare winters, lifts and piste.
Selwyn Snow Resort is positioned within Kosciuszko National Park, approximately 45km from Adaminaby and 135km from Canberra. This places it closer to Sydney and Canberra than other Snowy Mountains resorts, making it accessible for weekend trips and day visits. The drive takes visitors through rolling high country landscapes with notable stops including the charming fishing town of Adaminaby. Sitting on the traditional lands of the Ngarigo people, the surrounding environment features snow gum woodlands and subalpine vegetation that creates distinctive scenery throughout changing seasons. The resort's elevation at 1,614 metres provides reliable winter conditions while remaining accessible via well-maintained roads.
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Halloween weekend brings a wet, windy storm to the Sierra Nevada. Our five-day forecast has Dodge Ridge on top with 19 in, followed by Bear Valley at 15 in and Mammoth Mountain at 12 in, with most of it landing on Saturday. A winter weather advisory covers the Tahoe Basin and Mono County until 7 AM Sunday, gusts could reach 47 mph and the freezing level swings between 4,900 and 8,700 ft, so some bases will see rain. A dry spell follows from Monday.

The Rockies get their first lift-served turns of the season early. Lake Louise opens Sunday 1 November, five days ahead of schedule, after a cold October and round-the-clock work from the snowmaking and mountain crews. Terrain is limited to Juniper Express Chair and Easy Street, with two small terrain parks and the beginner area for lessons. Opening-day tickets are over 60% off, with prices rising as more lifts open. First chair is at 9:30 am under the resort’s new lift hours.

A Tyrolean summit lift that has been carrying guests up the Kitzbüheler Horn since 1955 is on borrowed time. Its licence runs to 2045, but a new inspection rule has made refurbishment uneconomic, so Bergbahn AG Kitzbühel will spend around €15 million on a replacement on the same line. It should hold roughly 100 people and keep running in winds that would stop today’s lift. Building starts in autumn 2027, which makes this winter and next summer the last chances to ride the old one.

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Colorado’s early-season dominoes keep falling. Arapahoe Basin opened on Wednesday, Keystone follows on Friday, and now Wolf Creek is joining in on Saturday 31 October, just in time for Halloween. A storm on 23 and 24 October left 20 inches of natural snow in the San Juans, and three lifts will turn from 9:00 am, covering about 30% of the mountain. Expect rocks, unmarked obstacles and open water, but also Local Appreciation lift tickets at $73 for adults.

Keystone is next. After Arapahoe Basin claimed the first chairlift skiing of the season on Wednesday, Keystone opens on Friday 30 October at 9:00 am with more than two miles of snowmaking-built terrain on Schoolmarm and Silver Spoon, plus free donuts, coffee and a live DJ. Last year the order was reversed, when Keystone squeezed in a three-hour afternoon session to beat A-Basin by a day. Snowmaking has been running since 15 October.

Beaver Creek is getting ready for the biggest Birds of Prey ever, and this time it is not leaving the snow to chance. Crews started making snow on 27 October with 16 newly installed automated guns on the lower third of the course, after last December’s warm spell forced a downhill off the schedule. Seven races across two weekends run from 3 to 13 December, the most the course has hosted since its 1997 debut, and the guns start themselves whenever the weather allows.

Winter has officially started in North America, and it is one blue run long. On Wednesday 28 October, Arapahoe Basin fired up the Black Mountain Express at around 10:30 am after a surprise announcement just hours earlier, becoming the first major North American resort open for 2026/27. Cold nights, a dusting of natural snow and a lot of snowmaking made it happen in the resort’s 80th winter. More terrain is promised as the snow guns keep running.
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