Experience Guide | Tourism Medicine Hat

SKI RESORT IN THE PRAIRIES Only a 45 minute drive from Canada’s Sunniest City, Hidden Valley Ski Resort encompasses eight hills that range from beginner to advanced skill levels. The park is an oasis people look forward to every winter, where snow gear is piled on, vehicles are packed up, and 45 minutes is spent driving to a winter wonder land. People of all ages race down the slopes and feel the rush of the wind and adrenaline for several minutes, with friends and family members. Once the bottom is reached, it’s all done over again until the sun starts to set. Elkwater Ski Club member Morgan Blair says the club has been building relationships, community, and resiliency for many years while they teach technical skills in alpine and freestyle skiing from five to 16 year olds. “Hidden Valley, as a part of Cypress Hills, hosts a unique ecosystem that is stunning year round. In the Hidden Valley

winter, visitors are often treated to a winter wonder land with bluebird skies and snow covered pines, even when there is no snow in Medicine Hat,” says Blair. She says it’s prime for the Medicine Hat community to be situated in the prairies with a nearby ski hill that’s less than an hour drive away. One minute, they’re sur rounded by breathtaking coulees and relaxed flatland, and the next they’re encircled by tall pine trees and invig orating hills in Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park. “On the way home, see if you can spot the snowy owl that hunts from the tops of telephone poles along Highway 41 at sunset,” says Blair.

Ski Stay Play at the Elkwater Lake Lodge & Resort

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