SilverStar is larger than Jackson Hole, Copper Mountain, or Breckenridge, with a modern lift fleet and plenty of lodging in the base village
Wintergreen 2025–26 season passholders now have five days of lift rides at SilverStar (with blackouts) along with 20 percent off lodging
The owners of Wintergreen Resort, Pacific Group Resorts, announced last week it had acquired SilverStar Mountain Resort in Vernon, British Columbia.
PGR also sold its Ragged Mountain operation in Danbury, New Hampshire, to local investors.
Reading about SilverStar, two words come up often: “remote” [map] and “secret.” Other words to describe it include “unsung,” “family-friendly” and “asskicker.”
About SilverStar
• Base elevation: 3,789 feet
• Summit elevation: 6,283 feet
• Vertical drop: 2,493 feet
• Skiable Acres: 3,282
• Average annual snowfall: 276 inches; no snowmaking
• Trails: 132
• Lifts: 10 (including one eight-passenger gondola, one six-seater, two high-speed quads, two fixed-grip quads, one T-bar)
Stuart Winchester, publisher of the sometime irreverent industry newsletter Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast, ("Everyone’s searching for skiing’s soul. I’m trying to find its brains.”) says PGR’s purchase of SilverStar from POWDR here makes sense to him, and it could be a game-changer for the owner of Wintergreen.
"The acquisition of SilverStar, when stacked onto the company’s 2022 purchase of Jay Peak, Vermont, repositions PGR’s portfolio from a seemingly scattershot collection of unrelated mountains to a destination pipeline that directly links local ski areas (Wisp, Wintergreen, Powderhorn, Washington) to aspirational, mega-snowy, vacation-worthy northern resorts,” Winchester told his subscribers.
“Jay is the snowiest ski area in eastern North America, while SilverStar is the 19th-largest public ski area by acreage in North America, and the seventh-biggest in Canada."
"PGR just totally reset its entire ecosystem. With a destination anchor in the East and another in the West, this is a company that may have just created its own virtuous business circle," Winchester concludes.
Winchester reports, “SilverStar will not be following the rest of PGR’s portfolio onto Indy Pass–at least right away. After holding out for years, POWDR finally dropped the B.C. giant onto Ikon’s two-day “bonus” tier in September. The contract, sources tell me, will forestall a potential Indy partnership for at least three winters.”
See Wintergreen Resort’s announcement about SilverStar here.
While a a group of local investors now owns Ragged Mountain, all season pass products and reciprocal benefits with PGR, including access to Jay Peak, Wisp, Mt. Washington Alpine Resort, Wintergreen, and Powderhorn, will be honored for the entire 2025–26 season. The new owners say passholders will see no disruption in access or benefits this winter.
-Charles Batchelor
