RED Mountain Resort is set to take centre stage during the 2026 B.C. Winter Games, welcoming some of the province’s top young athletes in alpine and freestyle skiing events.
“RED Resort is a hub of winter activities in our communities and to have them come on as a community partner is great news for our Games,” said Trail-Rossland 2026 B.C. Winter Games president Brian Stefani.
General manager Andrew Lunt, who has led RED since 2022, said the resort is well equipped to host high-calibre alpine competitions in collaboration with Red Mountain Racers and B.C. Alpine, utilizing two established race venues—one for slalom on the front face and another for giant slalom on the back trail.
In addition to alpine races, RED will break new ground by hosting three freestyle events—including moguls and slopestyle—marking the first time the resort has held Freestyle B.C.-sanctioned competitions.
“This will be our first foray into freestyle at this level,” said Lunt. “Freestyle B.C. will bring in a mogul builder and we’ll assist with snowmaking and grooming time to create the course.”
The mountain resort will also see the creation of a new freestyle terrain park on RED’s Topping area, a project made possible through the B.C. Games Society’s Powering Potential Fund and Freestyle B.C., with support from Arena Snowparks, a Canadian company that specializes in designing, building and maintaining snowparks and freestyle terrain.
The park will feature jumps and rail-line options used for slopestyle events and will be maintained by RED’s own staff, who will receive on-the-ground training from Arena Snowparks.
“If we can use the area we’ve identified on Topping, that will give us an opportunity to work with Freestyle B.C. on creating a park that can be used well beyond the Games,” said Lunt. “Having a terrain park of that calibre moving forward would give us a venue to host provincial freestyle events.”
The partnership between RED Mountain Resort and the B.C. Winter Games brings benefits beyond the Games—an investment that supports the future of skiing in the Kootenays.
“We’re excited to host the Games,” said Lunt. “It’s one of those events that really means a lot to the community, and it sets us up to support every discipline of ski competition—alpine, freeride and freestyle—for years to come.”
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