Cypress Mountain
Overview and significance Cypress Mountain is Vancouver’s closest big-mountain experience, a North Shore landmark in Cypress Provincial Park with lift-served terrain on Black Mountain and Mount Strachan and a night-skiing scene that lights up the skyline. For freeskiers, it’s a rare mix of easy access and real vertical—roughly 600+ acres, 53 named runs, and about 610 m of drop—plus a progression-friendly park program and long operating hours that let you stack laps after work. The mountain’s global calling card is its Olympic legacy: Cypress hosted all freestyle skiing and snowboarding events at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games, including moguls, aerials and ski cross, an inflection point that permanently raised the venue’s profile and infrastructure.... Read more on the Location page