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Encyclopedia > Cypress Mountain

Cypress Provincial Park is a provincial park in West Vancouver on the North Shore of Greater Vancouver. Cypress Provincial park has 2 sections. The 2100ha southern section which has road access and the 900ha northern section which is accessed only by hiking trails.


In the southern section there is ski area operated by a private company. This includes both downhill and cross-country skiing.


For the 2010 Winter Olympics, this will be the venue for snowboarding and freestyle skiing events.


External links

  • Cypress Mountain Ski (http://www.cypressmountain.com/)
  • BC Parks Webpage (http://wlapwww.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/cypress.htm)
  • Friends of Cypress Park (http://www.cypresspark.bc.ca/)

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Cypress Mountain Hotels (355 words)
Cypress Mountain is one of the places for skiing that not only hotel guests recognize as one of the best skiing spots in Vancouver with its approximate 51 runs but also has 5 different chairlifts to get skiers to the slopes.
Cypress Mountain also has other activities such as snowshoeing with 19 kilometers of trails and a 10-kilometer trail that can be a go it alone trek or as a guided snowshoeing event.
When it is time for fine dinning in the snow with all the views that Cypress Mountain has to offer at Hollyburn Lodge, which can also be accessed on the snow shoe trails for a mid trail break.
B.C.'s Cypress Mountain is Olympics bound (1762 words)
Cypress Mountain is one of three ski areas on the North Shore, just a half-hour from downtown Vancouver on a good traffic day.
On the west is 3,940-foot Black Mountain and all the new terrain; on the east are the slopes of 4,720-foot Mount Strachan.
Cypress, you see, is owned by CNL Income Properties Inc. and operated by Boyne USA and the Kircher family, which also owns and operates Crystal Mountain and now also operates The Summit at Snoqualmie in partnership with CNL.
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