RED Mountain

Red Mountain's summit reaches 2,075 metres, dropping 890 vertical metres to a base at 1,185 metres across 119 runs spread over roughly 1,558 hectares near Rossland, British Columbia. Terrain splits 34 per cent intermediate, 26 per cent expert, 23 per cent advanced and 17 per cent beginner, with average annual snowfall of roughly 7.6 metres. The resort carries Ikon Pass affiliation. Eight lifts, including two quad chairs and one double chair, serve the mountain alongside three triple chairs, one surface lift and one t-bar.

Red Mountain holds the distinction of being the oldest ski resort in Western Canada, tracing its origins to gold and copper mining in the 1890s, and later became the first ski area in history to fund ownership through public crowdfunding. Its considerable expert-weighted terrain and genuinely community-rooted history have built Red's reputation as one of the more independently minded major resorts in British Columbia.

Gold-copper ore deposits were discovered on the mountain in 1890, triggering a gold rush that filled Rossland with prospectors, many of whom skied the slopes in their spare time through the late 1800s. A gas-fuelled rope tow was built in the 1930s, followed in 1947 by the first true chairlift installed anywhere in Western Canada. Red started as a community-owned ski club and hosted Canada's first World Cup ski race in 1968, won by local racer Nancy Greene.

The mountain was sold to a group of private investors in the 1980s, before the resort launched its 'Own The Mountain' crowdfunding campaign in August 2016, raising more than 2.5 million Canadian dollars from over 700 individual investors over the following three years. Adult daily tickets run from 115 to 135 Canadian dollars.