On Tuesday, February 27th the Anchorage Assembly approved a change to our ARPA grant that allows us to build two new public use cabins. These two new cabins will go in our lower parking lot on the west side of the road, near the existing outhouse, where the little-used picnic shelters currently sit. These cabins […]
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Spring Weekday Riding at Arctic Valley
With days getting longer comes more riding at Arctic Valley. March 1 through April 12 we’ll be open Thursdays & Fridays in addition to our regular weekend operations. Note that our T-bar is the only lift that will be running those days, and lift ticket prices are discounted to reflect this. Come for some after […]
Northern Aspects Film Festival at Arctic Valley
Join us on Saturday, February 17th for the Northern Aspects Film Festival showing at Arctic Valley. We’re a proud supporter of the film festival – one of the founders even grew up skiing at Arctic Valley! Check out the teaser below, and stay after riding on Saturday. Doors at 5:30, show is at 6:00, tickets […]
T-bar Update
Update Wednesday 1/24/24 We’re back up and running! Today we finished attaching the bullwheel to the terminal, removed all the rigging and re-tensioned the lift. Then we inspected everything again, greased the bearings, and started the lift for the first time. After a couple low speed rotations we inspected again, greased again, and repeated a […]
’23-’24 Season Member Ski Free Days
Once a month, we give our Regular and Life members free lift tickets! For our Black Diamond members, we allow them to bring a guest – for free! Here’s this season’s schedule: […]
Opening Plans 2023
Projected ski area opening date: December 9th It’s been a good start to ski season! We got a bunch of snow in early-mid November that got us pretty close to having enough coverage to open. Unfortunately the Thanksgiving week weather system pushed temperatures above 40 degrees at the lodge, and has led to a lot […]
Powder Daze
Join us for our annual auction: online September 30-October 7, and at the lodge on October 7th! […]
Ride in May at Arctic Valley!
We did it! We’ll be open Saturday, May 6th for one last celebration of lift-served riding in Alaska this spring. Here’s the plan: Lifts: 12pm-6pm. T-bar and rope tow all day, with Chair 1 12-2:30, and Chair 2 2:30-5:30. Rentals are available. Entertainment: Hot Dish is playing from 5-7pm! They’ll send the season out with […]
End of Season Plans
Thanks to everyone who came out and supported us last weekend! We easily exceeded our revenue goal, and it was really rewarding to see everyone out riding, buying food and beer, and season passes and memberships for next season. It looks like the worst of this weekend’s weather is going to miss us, so let’s […]
Bonus Weekend Announcement!
Our snowpack is great, and staffing is falling into place, so we’re going to be open for (at least) one bonus weekend – April 22 & 23! Hours are 12pm-6pm, we’re anticipating running all three lifts plus the rope tow, and will have ski and snowboard rentals available. Tubing and lessons will not be available. […]
