Snowmobiling
Start planning your Arrow Slocan adventure today! Access essential tips, and local insights to make your journey seamless, unforgettable, and perfectly aligned with your sense of adventure.
Huge Mountain Ranges & Kootenay Powder
The West Kootenays’ region is a snowmobiler’s dream, with abundant snow, stunning mountain views, and diverse trails. Popular spots like the Valhalla Mountain Range and Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park offer thrilling challenges and breathtaking scenery.
Local snowmobile clubs, like the Slocan and Kaslo Snowmobile Associations, play a crucial role. They maintain trails, provide safety training, and host events, ensuring a safe and enjoyable experience for all.
Support Local Associations
Thanks to dedicated local associations that groom trails and provide terrain updates.
Choose Your Riding Area
Snowmobiling in the West Kootenays offers the perfect blend of accessibility and adventure, with a vast network of groomed trails and challenging backcountry terrain.
This is one of Nakusp’s most popular snowmobiling areas. The simple to access, family friendly trail is a 17 km groomed logging road surrounded by high, beautiful mountains.
- If the conditions are right, sledders can drop into No Man’s Land One and No Man’s Land Two to enjoy an untapped wonderland of pristine scenery.
- Harlow Mountain in BC offers breathtaking snowmobiling trails with stunning views of the Valhalla Mountain Range.
- The terrain is varied, with areas for both beginners and experienced riders.
- The snowmobiling season typically runs from December to April, depending on snow conditions.
Snowmobiling in the Ingersol area near Arrow Lake offers riders a challenging and scenic experience. With deep powder, winding trails, and breathtaking views of the surrounding mountains, it’s a snowmobiler’s paradise.
- This 25 km groomed trail is accessed via the Arrow Park ferry and old logging roads.
- Terrain varies from easy to extreme.
- Riders who scale the trail are able to access the Arrow Lake Ridge Riders sizable lodge. The cabin comfortably seats a dozen people and is equipped with a diesel generator and large deck.
Groomed trails are accessed by two main staging areas comprising of, Goose Creek and Ladybird forest service roads.
- Goose Creek is considered more family oriented with a groomed trail right to the alpine. Parking on Goose Creek consists of two lots – a smaller lower lot and a much larger lot further on. The smaller lot is for those hauling trailers.
- Ladybird is the more advanced snowmobiling area. Parking is located three kilometres up the Ladybird forest service road.
- Both snowmobiling areas have warm up cabins supplied with firewood and a barbecue to cook up lunch and just take a break out of the cold.
- The Castlegar Snowmobile Association maintain these areas. Purchase a membership before heading out.
Travel into the backcountry has its inherent risks. Proper gear and training are required to play safe. Leave a trip plan and know conditions before you head out.
- Always check the avalanche forecast before heading out.
- Carry a beacon, shovel, and probe, and know how to use them.
- Learn more about the Cariboo closure areas in the riding areas surrounding Nakusp.
- Never ride alone.
