High Park Ski Club
Throughout the winter, High Park Ski Club members enjoy day trips every weekend, overnight weekend trips, and week-long charter trips to resorts in North America and Europe. The club is fuelled by friendship and there are social events all year long.
About High Park Ski Club
New to winter sports? Looking to rediscover winter sports? Want to ski, snowboard or snowshoe more often? High Park Ski Club (HPSC) has the answer. We are a ski club for active singles and couples (21 years or older) who love winter. We run a variety of local, national and overseas trips and offer free beginner, intermediate, or advanced ski and snowboard lessons taught by certified instructors. For more detail on how this unique club works, see below.
Our Mission
To inspire and enable members to enjoy winter snow sports in a fun, friendly and supportive community
Our Vision
High Park Ski Club exists to support our members' participation in and love of winter snow sports. We strive to provide a fun community of likeminded people with the ability to learn and improve in skiing, snowboarding and snowshoeing through high quality lessons provided by our certified snow school. As a travelling club, we provide members access to the best local, national and international winter sports destinations through great value day, overnight or long trips organised by volunteers drawn from our membership.
Our Values
- We are all inclusive, where members are made to feel welcome and accepted regardless of gender, nationality, age, ethnicity, preferred winter sport or skill level
- We are youthful and energetic
- We are a club of fun loving people, on and off the snow
- We are professionally run
- We are a community
How to Enjoy Winter with High Park Ski Club
Join us on a Day Trip
- We offer day trips every Saturday and Sunday from December to March. Each day trip package includes your bus transportation, lift or trail ticket (with our club group discount), and free lessons. (For downhill skiers/snowboarders, lift tickets are optional; if you have a resort pass, you can use it).
- Downhill skiing/snowboarding trips: Every Saturday and Sunday, we go to Mount St-Louis and/or Blue Mountain. On Mondays, there are day trips to Blue Mountain, and on Wednesdays to leading private ski resorts in Ontario. See our Downhill Day Trip Schedule here once the season has started.
- Cross-country skiing/snowshoe trips: Every Saturday and Sunday, we go to many of the finest cross-country ski destinations in Ontario. See our Cross-Country Day Trip Schedule here once the season has started.
- Free lessons are available to all members on all day trips. Lessons are taught by HPSC Snow School instructors, all certified by the Canadian Ski Instructors Alliance (CSIA), Canadian Association of Snowboarding Instructors (CASI), or the Canadian Association of Nordic Ski Instructors (CANSI).
- Enjoy special programming, such as party and dinner trips and races, allowing more time to socialize with fellow members.
- Want to try out the club? Both downhill and cross-country offer two ‘Test Drive’ days every season, allowing non-members to register. Or, if you know someone in the club, come along on our designated ‘Bring a Friend’ trips.
Join us on a Long Trip
Join us for social events
- We offer a full schedule of social events all year, allowing members to mingle and make life-long friendships.
- Events include special New Members’ Nights, our weekly SkiFit & Brunch in the fall, and our formal season-ending ‘Last Tracks’ party. See our social events schedule here.
