Snow schools and rentals, Cypress Creek Grill, Gold Medal Cafe and Crazy Raven Bar and Grill and a Big Bear Sports retail shop are also located on the premises in the Cypress Creek Lodge.

The resort is legally known as Cypress Bowl Recreational Limited Partnership, previously owned by Boyne Resorts, then sold to CNL Income Properties, then Och-Ziff Capital Management, but Boyne Canada has continued to run the ski operation for several years under a lease-back agreement.

[5] On November 23, 1963 a Royal Canadian Navy T-33 Jet crashed while on a training flight near the present day Sky Quad chairlift on Mt.

The Cypress Bowl road leading up to the resort was completed in 1975, at the cost of $13 million.

Strachan was replaced with a Poma fixed-grip quad, the Sunrise chair, following the same lift line.

After Cypress was purchased by Boyne Resorts in 2001, the original chairlift on Black Mountain was replaced by the Eagle Express, a detachable quad chair built by Doppelmayr.

The previous Sunrise chair was moved across to Black Mountain and was installed on new terrain, which opened 9 new ski trails.

Summer days are mild with cool nights, while winters are long, moderately cold, and contain extreme amounts of precipitation.

Cypress Mountain Resort is home to the only Nordic (cross country) ski trails in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, and is located on 30 minutes from the downtown core via car.

[15][16] Hollyburn Lodge[17] (constructed in 1926, renovated in 2016) has a long and rich history supporting early backcountry ski enthusiasts, Nordic skiers, and snowshoers.

During the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, Cypress hosted all of the freestyle skiing and snowboarding competitions (moguls, aerials, ski cross, half-pipe, snowboard cross and parallel giant slalom).