Fernie snow report & forecast, lift queues, ski-in/out hotels

Ratings

❄️ Snow

5.5

⛰️ Terrain

5.1

🚠 Lifts

6.1

⏱️ Queues

8.1

💸 Value

4.0

🍻 Après

0.0

✈️ Access

3.7

Hover a bar to see what goes into it. Scores sit on a bell curve. 6.5 is a normal good resort and 8 or more is unusual. Method.

Key facts

Altitude	1068–2134 m
Vertical drop	1,066 m
Pistes advertised	2,500 acres
Pistes mapped on OSM	93.2 km
Lifts (mapped near village)	9 · 44% gondola/4+ chair
Day pass	CA$159
Passes	none
Avg snowfall (mid)	4.3 m / season
Nearest airport	YYC · 180 min

Snow & weather

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The last three winters at 1601 m

Avg snowfall / season

4.3 m

Powder days (15 cm+)

1

Snowy days

62

Avg temp at base

-2.8°

Average snowfall by month · best: Nov

Nov

98

Dec

95

Jan

45

Feb

85

Mar

73

Apr

39

By season: 2022/23: 4.1 m · 2 powder days2023/24: 4.8 m · 0 powder days2024/25: 4.2 m · 0 powder days

When to go

Month	Avg snowfall	Tuesday 11:00	Saturday 11:00
Dec	95 cm	~0.6 min	~1.2 min	SWEET SPOT
Jan	45 cm	~1.2 min	~3.3 min
Feb	85 cm	~1.4 min	~2.7 min
Mar	73 cm	~1.4 min	~2.8 min

Snowfall from three past winters, waits from the queue model (average across lifts, mid-month, holidays included where they fall).

Lift queues

Closed until Dec 6. Here's a normal February Saturday at 10:00:

SIMULATION Average wait ~3 min, worst 6 min.

Weekend: locals are out

Simulate:

🪑 Deer Chair

Chairlift · 3-seater · 1,700 p/h · 915 m

6 minpredicted

🪑 Timber Bowl Express Quad

Chairlift · 4-seater · 1,800 p/h · 2,548 m

5 minpredicted

🪑 Elk Quad

Chairlift · 4-seater · 1,810 p/h · 1,364 m

3 minpredicted

🪑 Boomerang

Chairlift · 3-seater · 1,700 p/h · 1,129 m

3 minpredicted

⤴️ Mighty Moose

Button lift · 1-seater · 614 p/h · 320 m

3 minpredicted

🪑 Great Bear Express Quad

Chairlift · 4-seater · 2,400 p/h · 1,538 m

2 minpredicted

🪑 White Pass Quad

Chairlift · 4-seater · 1,800 p/h · 1,069 m

2 minpredicted

🪑 Polar Peak Chair

Chairlift · 3-seater · 1,500 p/h · 596 m

2 minpredicted

⤴️ Haul Back

T-bar · 2-seater · 1,000 p/h · 461 m

2 minpredicted

Typical week (February, since the resort is closed now)

9h

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16h

Mon 15

Tue 16

Wed 17

Thu 18

Fri 19

Sat 20

Sun 21

Average predicted wait across lifts. ■ under 2 min ■ 4-7 min ■ 7-11 min ■ 11+ min. Hover a day to see why.

How we guess. The model starts from the resort's usual crowd level and adjusts for school holidays (French zones, UK half-term, Presidents' Day, Lunar New Year), weekends, time of day, lift capacity from OpenStreetMap, powder days and summit wind. When skiers on the hill tap a wait time, their reports replace the guess for 45 minutes and the lift shows LIVE.

Map

Pistes (OpenSnowMap) Lifts by queue Hotels Bars 3D· Drag to tilt. Tap the map to drop a 📍 and the hotels re-sort by distance to it, handy for ski school or a friend's chalet.

Where to sleep 8 places mapped · 1 ski-in/ski-out

9.5

Fernie Slopeside Lodge

Hotel 🎿 ski-in/ski-out

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8.9

The Griz Inn

Hotel 🚶 ~2 min to Mighty Moose ⛷️ piste 89 m

Book

8.9

Snow Creek Lodge

Hotel 🚶 ~2 min to Elk Quad ⛷️ piste 119 m

Book

8.9

Lizard Creek Lodge

Hotel 🚶 ~2 min to Elk Quad ⛷️ piste 116 m

Book

8.3

Wolf's Den

Hotel 🚶 ~3 min to Deer Chair ⛷️ piste 164 m

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7.3

Alpine Lodge

Hotel 🚶 ~5 min to Elk Quad ⛷️ piste 121 m

Book

5.6

Timberline Lodge

Hotel 🚶 ~8 min to Mighty Moose ⛷️ piste 489 m

Book

1.0

Fernie Stanford Resort

Hotel 🚶 ~44 min to Elk Quad ⛷️ piste 2.4 km

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Ski access score: 9.5 means ski-in/ski-out (a piste within 70 m and a lift within 600 m). Each minute of walking to the nearest lift costs about half a point. Distances are straight lines on OpenStreetMap, so add about 30% for the walk.

Pistes

Easy (blue / green)	18.8 km · 20%
Intermediate (red / blue)	40.1 km · 43%
Advanced (black)	24 km · 26%
Expert	10.5 km · 11%

Longest named runs

Falling Star	4.8 km
Summer Road	2.6 km
Cedar Trail	2.4 km
Tower 6 Trail	2.2 km
Siberia Ridge	2.0 km
View Trail	1.9 km
Elk	1.7 km
Holo Hike	1.5 km

Après & food

Bars & pubs

1

Clubs

0

Restaurants

2

Mountain huts

0

🍸 Vodka Ice Bar

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Getting there

Nearest major airport: YYC, about 180 min away by road. Directions · Flights

Fernie Alpine Resort is a ski resort, located on Lizard Range, near the town of Fernie, British Columbia in Canada. The resort also operates a mountain bike park, hiking, guided hikes, and sightseeing in the summer months. Wikipedia