Kananaskis, AB – La Niña is here! Winter has arrived like a lion and really kicked up some early season winter storms (just like the La Niña forecast has noted for this winter). It’s time to ski and plan your winter ski vacation to the Canadian Rockies!  Our team at Nakiska Ski Area has been

Environment Canada and the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) have already declared the upcoming 2024.2025 winter season a La Niña phenonmenon and now Farmer’s Almanac agrees. According to the Almanac; ‘La Niña, which refers to the periodic cooling of ocean surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific, is expected to develop and hang on through

Canada – We interrupt your summer with a snowy update.  La Niña winter is in the forecast!  You’ve probably heard a lot of talk about La Niña or sometimes El Niño, so what do they really mean?  During El Niño, trade winds weaken, warm water is pushed back east, toward the west coast of the Americas resulting in

October 31st, 2023 – Kananaskis, AB – ‘Snow Season’ begins, Nakiska Ski Area, usually Canada’s first ski area to open, will kick-off the 2023/24 Ski Season, this weekend, operating Saturday (Nov 4) and Sunday (Nov 5). Calgary, Alberta’s closest mountain ski area, Nakiska, was recently hit with a major snowstorm turning the peaks of K-Country into

STARTING WITH THE 2023/24 SEASON, EPIC AUSTRALIA PASS HOLDERS WILL RECEIVE FIVE COMBINED DAYS AT THE RESORTS OF THE CANADIAN ROCKIES Epic Australia Pass Holders will receive five combined days at the Resorts of the Canadian Rockies – including Fernie Alpine Resort, Kicking Horse Mountain Resort and Kimberley Alpine Resort in British Columbia, Nakiska in Alberta, and Mont-Sainte-Anne and Stoneham in Quebec – starting with the 2023/24 Northern Hemisphere winter

October 16, 2019 – Kananaskis, AB – Trick? Or Treat?  It’s not a trick…..but it certainly is a treat!  Here at Nakiska Ski Area we have been lucky to have Mother Nature give us some of the biggest and earliest significant snow storms we’ve ever seen, allowing us to start snowmaking at a roaring pace and

October 1, 2019 – Kananaskis, AB – with the arrival of the September storm in Western Canada, Nakiska Ski Area (located near Banff, AB) was able to start snowmaking in what is likely to be the earliest time on record.  Snowmaking commenced on Saturday, September 28th with hopes to continue it throughout October and into the