The slopes offer plenty of enjoyable and challenging runs down to the high-speed lifts that will return you to snowboard heaven. Although Vancouver Island is renowned for its steep, rugged mountains, there's also great beauty in the mellow, rounded hills and snow-carpeted meadows. This terrain is ideal for cross-country skiing and snowshoeing, great aerobic activities for the whole family, or the wandering couple and invigorating exercise for the fitness fanatics. Forty kilometres of quiet track-set trails, partially located in Strathcona Provincial Park, will provide enough terrain for the most demanding adventurer to explore. Nordic skiers on Mt. Washington enjoy some of the most diverse and scenic trails in the Pacific Northwest.
All trails are track-set for classic and have a centre lane groomed for skating.
From the cozy, cross-country day lodge at Mount Washington, a series of loop trails offers workouts of between 3 and 12 km long across the gentle terrain of Paradise Meadows . Intermediate and advanced nordic skiers can take advantage of a specially priced lift ticket for the Red Chair, from which you can descend into the upper West Meadows along 10 km of tracked trails. For some of the best cross-country terrain anywhere, try the Lake Trail Loop and the Upper West Trail. There's an unhurried nature to cross-country skiing at Mt. Washington. Snowshoeing is the best and easiest way to access the outdoors in winter time.