What Grouse Mountain lacks in size it more than makes up for at night.
From late November to early April (depending on the snow, of course) this is the closest and most accessible of the downtown ski resorts. For the ultimate Grouse Mountain experience you have to go after dark. Take the 6pm cable car for cheaper tickets, rent your skis at the top and head off down The Cut for what is, in my opinion anyway, the most stunning night time view you will ever get from a ski run. Laid out before you twinkling away is the entirety of Vancouver and on a clear night you can see right out to the ships in the Burrard Inlet. Fantastic.
Follow it up with a few Rickards Reds in the great mountain-top restaurant before catching the last cable car down (about 11pm).
6400 Nancy Greene Way, North Vancouver, BC, V7R 4K9;
www.grousemountain.com
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