Marmot Basin

Template:Advert Template:Short description Template:Infobox ski area 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

Lift Name	Vertical Rise	Type	Make	Build Year
Canadian Rockies Express	596m (1955')	High speed quad	Leitner-Poma	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Eagle Express	320m (1050')		Doppelmayr	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Paradise Express	410m (1345')		Leitner-Poma	2011<ref name="ft"/>
School House	122m (400')	Triple	Doppelmayr	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> location)<ref name="ft">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Knob	270m (900')	Fixed grip quad		2023
Eagle Ridge	307m (1007')			citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Magic Carpet	8m (26')			citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Former lifts

• Tranquilizer Chair (Double Chair) - 1968<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Kiefer T-Bar (T-Bar) - 1974<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• School House T-Bar (T-Bar) - 1964<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Caribou Chair (Double Chair) - 1971 - Retired 2011
• Spillway T-Bar (T-Bar) - 1986 - Removed 1990
• Knob Chair (Double Chair) 1976 - Retired 2023

Photos

• Lower mountain, Marmot Basin.jpg

  Lower Mountain

• Jasper from Eagle Ridge Quad Chair at Marmot Basin.JPG

  Town of Jasper from the Eagle Ridge lift

• RobPillows2.jpg

  Powder day at Marmot Basin

See also

• List of ski areas and resorts in Canada
• Jasper National Park

External links

• SkiMarmot