Castle Mountain Facilities

The base area of the Castle Mountain Resort is reasonably small and it houses adequate ski resort facilities and services, considering that it’s not an overly busy resort. Some services and amenities only operate on weekends and holidays.

Facilities for Children

Child care is no longer available at Castle Mountain.

There aren’t many organised activities for children to do outside of skiing and snowboarding.

Castle Ski and Snowboard School

Small group ski lessons are available for 3-5 year olds for half or full day. For ages 6-13 there are standard group ski and snowboard lessons. All kids’ lessons start pretty late at 10:30am and full day programs have an unsupervised hour for lunch. It’s best to double check that lessons will proceed on weekdays.

For adults, group and private lessons are available, and they tend to start pretty late also. It seems that the instructors want some free time to go powder skiing because lessons start pretty late.

The snowsports school provides good value for money, and the first timer and 2nd timer packages are particularly affordable.

Ski and Snowboard Rental

Alpenland at Castle Mountain has a large range of very inexpensive rental equipment including downhill skis, snowboards, demo equipment, boots, cross country equipment, snowshoes, and avalanche safety packs.

The shop also takes care of equipment tuning, repairs and waxing requirements.

Retail Shop

The ski shop sells a small range of skis, other hardwear, and some outerwear, and a larger range of accessories such as goggles, gloves, beanies and neck gaitors. If you need any other supplies, there is a small general store in Beaver Mines (27km away) or other shops in Pincher Creek (46km away).

Eating On Mountain

The day lodge has a cafeteria, which serves up breakfast, lunch and snacks. Most items are from the grill or fryer and there are also a few options that are a little healthier. The food is cooked fresh, but the kitchen doesn’t have a lot of capacity so you could be waiting a while on busy days.

Also in the day lodge is Joe’s Café (open weekends only), serving up coffee, pastries and simple lunch fare.

Or you can have lunch next door at the T-Bar Pub or get a take-away spud at a little kiosk.

Internet Facilities

Wifi on the mountain is fairly sporadic and cell service for many tel-cos is absent, especially on the lower mountain, so you might need to communicate the old school way.