Marmot Basin
Marmot Basin is an alpine ski area located on Marmot Mountain in Alberta's Jasper National Park. It has 91 named runs on four mountain faces with 3,000 vertical feet of drop. The area has a lift capacity of close to 12,000 skiers per hour on seven lifts. The season runs from mid-November to early May. It is located twenty minutes south of Jasper and has two million visitors annually.
Amenities
Marmot Basin rents skis, snowboards, boots, and poles. The Snow Sports School offers lessons and children's programs.There are three mountain day lodges: Caribou Chalet at the base of the ski hill and the Eagle and Paradise Chalets that are mid-mountain. There is no overnight on-mountain lodging at Marmot Basin.
Marmot Basin has three terrain parks – lower, mid, and upper mountain – with rail slides, table tops, and jumps.
Lift system
Former lifts
- Tranquilizer Chair - 1968 - Removed 2009
- Kiefer T-Bar - 1974 - Removed 2009
- School House T-Bar - 1964 - Removed 2011
- Caribou Chair - 1971 - Retired 2011
- Spillway T-Bar - 1986 - Removed 1990
- Knob Chair 1976 - Retired 2023