The hill
One T-bar, one lodge, and a Friday night under lights
Summit Lake is a small hill 16 km east of Nakusp with a single T-bar, a day lodge and cafeteria, a rental shop for skis, snowboards and snowshoes, and a cross-country trail alongside it. Lifts turn from 10:00 to 15:30.
- The lift
- T-bar
- Night skiing
- Fridays
- Lifts run
- 10:00 – 15:30
- Half day
- from 12:30
- From Nakusp
- 16 km
- Last season ended
- 22 Mar
the one lift on the hill
under the lights
when the hill is open
afternoon tickets
east of town
closing date of 2025/26
Placeholder photo The lift
Everything here hangs off one T-bar
A T-bar is the whole lift system at Summit Lake. There is no queue to speak of, no gondola, no base village — you ride up standing, you ski down, and the lodge is never far away. For a family teaching a six-year-old to ski, that compactness is the point.
It also means the hill lives or dies on one machine and the volunteers who keep it running. When the club asks for help, this is a large part of what it is asking about.
- Lift
- T-bar
- Lifts run
- 10 – 15:30
- Half day
- 12:30
On the hill
Three ways to spend a day here
Summit Lake does not publish a graded run list, so nothing below is a difficulty rating — these are simply the three things the hill offers.
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Off the T-bar
One surface lift serves the downhill skiing and riding here. Ride it, ski back to the bottom, do it again — the whole hill is within sight of the lodge, which is exactly why parents like it.
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The cross-country and snowshoe trail
A trail away from the lift for anyone who would rather walk than ride, with snowshoes available in the rental shop and its own, much cheaper season pass.
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Friday nights
The hill lights up one night a week. It is the shift that turns a ski hill into somewhere the town actually goes on a Friday, and it is worth planning a visit around.
Placeholder photo 
Placeholder photo Night skiing
Fridays, after the light goes
Night skiing runs on Fridays. In a valley where the sun drops early and the working week eats the daylight, a lit hill on a Friday evening is the difference between skiing once a month and skiing every week.
The hill has not posted its night-skiing hours, so we have not put a time here. Call before you drive out — and check the hill is open at all, because a small hill can lose a night to weather at short notice.
Placeholder photo Deliberately blank
No vertical drop, no run count, no trail map
Summit Lake does not publish those figures, and a concept site is the worst possible place to invent them. In a real build this is where the trail map and the hill's own numbers would sit — supplied by the club, checked by the club, and worth far more than anything we could estimate from a satellite photo.
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