Banff Sunshine Village (formerly Sunshine Village) is a ski resort in western Canada, located on the Continental Divide of the Canadian Rockies within Banff National Park in Alberta and Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park in British Columbia.

[3] Because of its location straddling the Continental Divide, Sunshine receives more snow than the neighbouring ski resorts[further explanation needed].

In summer, the resort runs a shuttle bus service to its attractive walking trails and alpine meadows.

His diary noted "Hole in the Wall" Goat's Eye mountain and he left a blaze in a tree that has since been preserved in the Banff Natural History Museum.

Housing Mad Trapper's Saloon and Bruno's Bistro, the OSL is situated at the timberline above what was then known as Wheeler’s Flats and just below a vast expanse of high alpine meadows.

He ushered in the modern era with the opening of the first gondola, which replaced bus access to the ski area, in 1980, In 1981, the resort was purchased by Ralph T. Scurfield of Calgary.

In 1995, the resort expanded onto Goat's Eye Mountain, constructing a Poma high-speed quad to service the new terrain.

A year later, the Great Divide double chairlift to the summit of Lookout Mountain was replaced with an extended high-speed quad, also built by Poma.

The Strawberry Express had originally been built as a temporary lift at Whistler Blackcomb in 2009 for the 2010 Winter Olympics to transport spectators from the Creekside base area to the finish line on the downhill course.

In 2015, the last remaining double chairlift on the mountain, Tee Pee Town, was removed and replaced by Doppelmayr with a bubble high-speed quad containing heated seats.

[citation needed] In 2019, Parks Canada and the resort reached an agreement over future expansion and leasehold area.

Banff Sunshine is the first ski resort in Canada to feature a high-speed quad with heated seats and bubbles.

[8] The Sunshine Mountain Lodge, an 84-room hotel is located in the "village" at tree line 7,200 feet (2,200 m) above sea level.

The ski season begins in early November and traditionally ends in late May, on the Victoria Day long weekend, with an event called the Slush Cup.

Slush Cup participants attempt to ski down in front of a very large crowd of crazily dressed spectators, jump onto a pool of water (approx.

access one of the eight adjacent backcountry terrain such as 'Wawa Ridge' or Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park in British Columbia.

for access to the freeride zones of Delirium Dive and Wild West where the entrances are via a gate that remains locked at all times unless it detects a working avalanche transceiver on each person that passes through it.

Banff Sunshine was utilized as a task destination for the season-ending episode of the popular American reality television show The Amazing Race 5 (original broadcast date September 2004).

In the final 13th leg of this race, the three remaining teams took taxicabs from the Calgary International Airport to Banff Sunshine.

After riding the gondola to the base of Lookout Mountain, the contestants donned snowshoes before making the approximate 2,000 vertical foot hike to the top ridge of the Great Divide (elevation 8,900 feet).