Big White Summer Blog

Summer time is just so much better when you can spend it with the ones you love – including your four-legged family members! At Big White Ski Resort, we love seeing your pooches hitching rides on the chairlift, wagging their tails in the Village and sniffing flowers in the alpine meadows – but, there are a few basic rules and tips to keep everyone, including your pet, happy, healthy and safe while traversing the mountain.

The sun is shining, the trails are opening, and soon, there will be thousands upon thousands of alpine wildflowers blooming – as of Friday July 10, Big White Ski Resort, in all its summer beauty, is open to the public! Over 300 people joined the Big White family in welcoming the summer season, with more showing up for Friday Night Bikes in the bike park

We know Big White is the best – how could we not? An average of 750cm of dry, fluffy Okanagan Champagne Powder in the Winter and fields upon fields of alpine wildflowers in the Summer? Sounds pretty epic to us... and, guess what, the rest of Kelowna seems to think we’re the best, too!

Big White would like to congratulate Kelowna-based coffee roaster, Tug 6, on taking home two gold awards at the Hopwired Festival that took place in Vancouver in late February. Tug 6 won "Best Espresso" for its Beach Cruiser Espresso, and “Best Coffee” for its Ethiopian blend.

It’s nearly skiing-in-your-sweater, cold-beer-to-cool-down weather at Big White Ski Resort. To get you as excited about the longer days as we are, we’ve compiled a list of the best patios to relax, imbibe and perfect your goggle tan at this Spring!

Each week, we'll update this blog with a photo and description of a new dish available at a Big White restaurants. Sign up for our weekly newsletter Snowghost at the bottom of the page to stay in the loop.

Year after year, the epic snow conditions, ski-in, ski-out convenience and the Village lifestyle attract potential employees to Big White – and now, there’s another draw: brand-new, fully furnished staff accommodation in Black Forest.

Big White Ski Resort is truly a magical place – made even more magical by the people who ski, snowboard, stay and play throughout the year. In this blog, we'll share the stories of people who have fallen in love with one another, who have been proposed to and who have said "I Do" at the resort.

Big White Ski Resort is known in North America for its easy ski-in, ski-out access to restaurants, bars, accommodations, and pretty well everything else on the resort – in Canada, it’s the Largest Totally Ski-In, Ski-Out Resort Village! – and now, it’s known worldwide.