Fernie is located on the southern tip of the Canadian Rockies. Fernie boasts unparalled outdoor experiences in every season and has a unique and vibrant town centre, where you can enjoy an array of restaurants, shops, cafes and nightlife.

Fernie is world-renowned in the snow industry. Fernie Alpine Resort gets an average of 29 feet of snow annually! It has five enormous bowls, countless glades and chutes and a variety of terrain that appeals to all levels. Backcountry skiing adventures are very accessable and cat-skiing is popular.

In summer, adventure is also abundant: radical single track downhill and cross-country mountain biking, a diversity of hiking trails, rafting and hiking, horse riding and world-renowned fly fishing.  Fernie Alpine Resort operates its chair lifts annually from July to Sept - enabling the average hiker to complete an amazing mountain peak in one afternoon. Fernie Alpine Resort also hosts events such as the Canada Cup Downhill Mountain Bike Race and the town is proud to host the famous trans-Rockies mountain bike race every year.

     Vertical rise: 857m/2816 feet

     Summit elevation: 1925m/6316 feet

     Skiable acres: 2504 acres

Fernie Alpine Resort was named `North American Resort of the year.  Skiing Magazine extended the honour of #10 in the world ranking of resorts and Fernie was also selected by Outside magazine as one of North America's top 20 dream towns!

Stay posted for outdoor concerts and festivites during summer!.....Its a hard life in the Rockies but not hopeless.

Come and let us be your base camp to adventure!

Climate
The local topography of mountains and valleys gives Fernie its own micro-climate. Fernie sees substantial snowfall during the winter (360 cm in town, 950 cm on the ski hill). The mountain range that makes this such a beautiful place also protects Fernie from extreme temperature variations. Temperatures during winter will average about -11c, even when our neighbors in Alberta are locked into -30c arctic freezes. In summer, we can expect daytime averages of about +25c with evening temperatures that make it comfortable to sit outside.