REVELSTOKE

British Columbia

This 3,121-acre resort in the Selkirk Mountains has long offered the most vertical in North America, at 5,620 feet. It also affords a great mix of high alpine bowls, groomed terrain, and some of the best tree-skiing in the world. This year, it boasts even more, with two new runs in its Ripper Zone, a large, perfectly pitched off-trail area. Revelstoke undertook an extensive off-season glading operation that improved tree spacing with scientific precision, and two new high-tech snowcats will improve the groomed terrain for intermediate skiers. Skiing the thing top to bottom on one of its cruisers is a true leg-burning rite of passage, and on a powder day—the resort gets 400 inches annually—the best choice of runs is Kill the Banker, the mountain’s iconic double-black run that plunges 2,500 feet directly under the gondola. Revelstoke is also one of the few resorts that has snowcat and heli-skiing from the base area. From a pure skiing perspective, it really does have it all.

Where to Stay: Village life in Revelstoke veers toward the quiet side, but the recently opened Bison Lodge is a ski-in-ski-out gem, with a fireplace you can climb (with ropes!) and a private helipad to take advantage of the incredible heli-skiing terrain surrounding the resort. —K.D.