Silver Star is one of the few resorts where the village really is the lift base: a car-free cluster of buildings painted in bright Victorian colours, sitting straight on the snow. It pairs the dry, light powder of the BC Interior with one of the largest cross-country networks in North America right alongside the downhill terrain.
Silver Star is a ski-in/ski-out resort (most of the village is genuinely on the snow) in Canada, in the BC Interior. The village sits at 1155 m and the lifts top out at 1915 m, with 115 km of pistes and 12 lifts. Its BestSnowHotels snow score is 84/100, and the season usually runs Nov 28 → Apr 15.
How we score and classify resortsRun counts and piste kilometres are indicative. Green runs only exist in France, Spain, Andorra, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Japan, the United States, Morocco, Algeria, Lesotho, South Africa, Egypt, Canada, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Chile; Italy, Austria, Switzerland and Germany start at blue. Indicative average snow depth near the top of the resort, in cm.
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Excellent · 3.0k reviews
Moments from the lifts in Silver Star, so you can ski back to the door and skip the morning queues.
Guests rate this hotel as excellent (4.7/5 from 2,996 reviews). It sits about 150 m from the slopes. A upper-scale option for Silver Star, with live nightly rates shown for your exact dates so you always see the best price.
Excellent · 83 reviews
Moments from the lifts in Silver Star, so you can ski back to the door and skip the morning queues.
Great · 141 reviews
Moments from the lifts in Silver Star, so you can ski back to the door and skip the morning queues.
Very good · 53 reviews
Moments from the lifts in Silver Star, so you can ski back to the door and skip the morning queues.
Great · 64 reviews
Moments from the lifts in Silver Star, so you can ski back to the door and skip the morning queues.
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Silver Star is genuinely ski-in/ski-out. The compact pedestrian village sits right at the lifts, so from most lodging you can click in at the door in the morning and ski straight back to it at the end of the day.
Silver Star suits families and intermediates especially well, with long groomers on the front side and gentle, well-spaced glades that make it a fine place to learn to ski the trees. The slopeside village means days start and finish on snow, while the high, dry Interior climate keeps the cover light and reliable. The usual approach is to fly into Kelowna International Airport and drive up in about an hour and a half, passing through Vernon, which sits roughly twenty minutes below the resort.
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Silver Star offers 115 km of pistes across 12 lifts, from 1155 m to 1915 m. Whether it suits beginners depends on the dedicated learner zones at the base of the slopes, so check the local ski-school options for green and blue run access.
The season runs from Nov 28 to Apr 15, with a snow score of 84/100. The best conditions are usually from late January through February, while spring skiing in March and April brings longer days and softer afternoons.
Silver Star is genuinely ski-in/ski-out. The compact pedestrian village sits right at the lifts, so from most lodging you can click in at the door in the morning and ski straight back to it at the end of the day.
Silver Star has 115 km of marked pistes served by 12 lifts, between 1155 m and 1915 m of altitude.
Silver Star counts about 132 marked runs in total. The colour breakdown above shows how they split by difficulty, a good guide to whether the resort fits your level.
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