Alberta’s Banff Sunshine Village enjoyed one of its largest snowfall totals this past winter with more than 400 inches. An average season for the resort typically lands just a bit over 240 inches, so the 2025-2026 season was more than just good, it was historic. At one point in March, the resort announced it had seen 293 inches of snow in just 84 snowfall days, coming within striking distance of four of its most intense winter stretches in history (2016-2017: 299 inches in 118 snowfall days, 2017-2018: 300 inches in 110 snowfall days, 2020-2021: 297 inches in 102 snowfall days, 2021-2022: 304 inches in 94 snowfall days).
The fruits of that historic winter are still paying off as the resort reopened over the weekend for two weeks of summer skiing and riding. For some more perspective, resort PR says it’s just the second time Banff Sunshine Village has been able to do so this millennia. A handful of North American resorts have orchestrated summer reopenings of their own, but those have been single weekends and were limited to terrain parks built on top of snow piles farmed from the past season.
Sunshine Village ran two lifts with a handful of full trails open on summer solstice, and on Monday morning the resort announced more terrain would be open and it would operate through July 5. The resort held summer skiing previously after the 2021-2022 winter season, but that only lasted for six days.
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“We got to the end of our ski season and we’re looking around and we said ‘Holy mackerel moly, we still have a ton of snow left.’ It is a certainty that we’ll be able to open for summer skiing,” said Kendra Scurfield, vice president of brand and communications at Banff Sunshine Village, ahead of the re-opening. “It is definitely a summer ski experience. So the snow is softer, it’s a little bit slushy. It is not March, mid-winter ski vibes, but it’s après spring vibes.”
