Vancouver to Sun Peaks

Even though Sun Peaks is the second largest ski resort in Canada with 3 mountains and 4,270 acres of skiable terrain, the line ups at the lifts are usually very short and it’s often easy to get a seat at the local restaurants. Only Whistler Blackcomb is larger than Sun Peaks, but is also the busiest in North America. There are 13 ski lifts and 137 trails with 17 gladed areas. All 3 mountains are easily accessible from the village. Similar to other ski resorts in BC’s interior, the resort receives about 6 meters of light, dry powdery snow annually. For more information, visit the Sun Peaks Resort website.

Transportation from Vancouver to Big White

Big White is Canada’s largest ski-in-ski-out resort village. You can ski right from the door of your cabin to a chairlift. Unlike many other mountain resorts that alternate between winter sports in the cooler months and downill mountain biking in the warmer months, Big White has always been built just as a ski resort. It is only open in the Winter and closed in the Summer. It is open in December all the way until mid April. At the altitude that Big White is at, it only snows and never rains there, providing over 2500 vertical feet of perfect powder snow. People love that there are little to no line-ups at the lifts. For more information, visit the official Big White website.

Transportation from Vancouver to Kamloops/Kelowna

Despite being a small town of around 100,000 people, Kamloops is an adventure playground that evolves throughout all four seasons. The weather is perfect from April to November for biking, paddling through rivers and lakes or hiking the many trails available. During the Winter months from December to March, enjoy downhill skiing or snowboarding and explore winter trails by snowshoe. If you’re in the mood to see some wildlife, there is the BC Wildlife Park where you can see much of the local wildlife up close. For more information, visit Tourism Kamloops.

Transportation from Vancouver to Revelstoke

If you’re into skiing or snowboarding, Revelstoke is the spot to be at. The way the surrounding mountains cradle the town of Revelstoke result in weather that is perfectly conducive to winter sports. Cold temperatures and dry air means the snow in Revelstoke is often ideally the light, fluffy powdery snow that everyone loves to slide down the mountains on. At Revelstoke Mountain Resort, there are over 20 lifts and more than 100 ski and snowboard runs/areas.  In the summer time, enjoy mountain biking, hiking and the famous Pipe Mountain Coaster, a 1.4 km ride of twists and turns where riders travel up to 42km/hr.

Transportation from Vancouver to Penticton

Penticton is a relatively small town with a huge variety of outdoor activities to do during all four seasons. Similar to Vancouver, it’s one of the few cities where you can ski in the morning and go golfing in the afternoon for many months of the year. In the Winter, there’s fantastic skiing and snowboarding runs to explore. In the summer, enjoy water sports like kite boarding and wake boarding at Okanagan Lake, which some say gives you a unique fresh water ocean feel in a small town on a lake. In the spring and fall, you have some of the best places to mountain bike. With a variety of wineries and breweries in the area, you can have a blast outdoors during the day and end the day sipping some local wine.