Dakota Ridge Recreation Site is a ski area in Canada, on slopes between roughly 1,133 and 1,133 m. Its mapped area is about 6.5 km across.
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 574 cm of snowfall a season, 50th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 5th in Canada. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (786 cm), brought more than 12 times as much as the leanest, 2014/15 (61 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (170 and 164 cm on average).
The nearest city of any size is Vancouver, about 44 km away.
Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.
Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.
We do not show a snow depth here. The weather model we use reports snow lying on the ground — it knows nothing about grooming or snowmaking, and it is not the base depth a ski area publishes. In Japan we can check our figures against 234 weather stations. Outside Japan there is nothing to check them against, so we do not print a number we have not verified. Snow report on the official site ↗
How much snow it gets
Measured by us across 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Compared with what is nearby
Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. Ski areas a few kilometres apart share a weather grid cell and can return the same figure.
| Ski area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cypress Mountain | 33 km | 314 cm | 430 |
| Grouse Mountain | 41 km | 631 cm | 33 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings 87% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Canada (79%). In amount, March brings 142 cm, more than the median of 32 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 574 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 61 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 786 cm (12.9 times as much). For 28% of the 171 ski areas in Canada, the leanest winter was the same 2014/15: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
Official piste map ↗More places to look
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52