Kimberley Alpine Resort

Kimberley Alpine Resort is a ski resort in southwestern Canada, located in Kimberley, British Columbia.

In the Purcell Mountains on the northeast face of North Star Hill, Kimberley's vertical drop is 751 m with a summit elevation of 1982 m above sea level. The ski season commonly starts in mid-December and runs until early April.

The resort maintains 80 runs (with 20% beginner, 42% intermediate, and 38% advanced trails) and five lifts: a high-speed quad chairlift (the North Star Express), a triple chair (the Easter), a double chair (the Tamarack), a T-bar (the Owl) and a magic carpet, leading to an hourly lift capacity of 6,452.

The ski area opened in 1948 as North Star with a 245 m rope tow; a T-bar installed a decade later was over 1.8 km in length, vertically climbing 460 m in eleven minutes.



Management
The ski resort is operated by Resorts of the Canadian Rockies Inc., which also owns Fernie Alpine Resort, Nakiska, Mont Sainte-Anne, and Stoneham; the latter two are located in Quebec.