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for 2024-25!
 Purchase your 2024-2025 season pass starting February 21, 2024 and ski the rest of this season on next year's pass! Get your alpine, nordic, or all mountain passes, deals for first-timers, students, seniors, and more.

Fresh Water Kayak Symposium
June 28-30th
JOIN FELLOW PADDLERS ON THE GREATEST GREAT LAKE!
50% of proceeds go toward Mt Ashwabay Outdoor Education Foundation!

The Freshwater Kayak Symposium is a smorgasbord of classes, trips, and clinics open to all levels of paddlers. From learning how to roll, trips with professional coaches teaching new ways to think about safety and rescues, to expanding your paddling social network, it's a fantastic and inexpensive way to get a lot in a few short days. Besides great learning opportunities, we include event 'swag' such as hats or T-shirts, local business items, an amazing dinner, and morning coffee, and this year we're partnering with South Shore Brewery for some South Shore nighttime fun!

The symposium is unique among similar events in that we donate 50% of our net income to a worthy local organization. In 2023 our participants raised $1500 for Friends of the Apostle Islands "Access For All", a project that will allow people of all abilities to access the beach at the mainland sea caves. This year we partner with the Non-profit Mt Ashwabay Outdoor Education Foundation to help its ongoing youth programming activities.

Early bird pricing is $295 until April 28th. Not ready to commit to the full 3 days? We have a 1-day option for $125, a demo-beach-only option which is $20 to try out Current Designs Kayaks, and a family (kids learn how to kayak!) class option on Saturday ($25 for kids and 1 adult chaperone). Oh, and a FREE Gear Swap on Saturday as well. (Very nice stuff last year)

Check out the ever-updating schedule, and put it on your calendar!

Girls Empowered Trails: Mt Ashwabay
August 12-15, 2024

Mt Ashwabay Merch now available online!

Choose Your Winter Sport

Community-Supported Skiing & Outdoor Recreation

Mt. Ashwabay is a non-profit ski hill and outdoor recreation area in Bayfield, Wisconsin overlooking Lake Superior and the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.

Our facilities are cozy and modest to make way for the miles of peaceful terrain maintained and supported by our community of volunteers and donors.

​Join us at the mountain for a laid-back day of skiing, snowshoeing, hiking, or biking. We'll be here to say hello and make you feel at home.

Please consider making a donation!

Click Here to download our donation request letter.
Click Here to download a pdf fundraising form.
Click Here to help raise money online.

Thank you so much for supporting Mt Ashwabay!

Hear from Happy Adventurers

- Ashley, Google Review
“Small place with lots to do. 45k of xc trails, snowshoeing, down hill skiing and snowboarding, fat bike trails and cheeseburgers. Oh my!”
“Cross-country ski trails were beautiful. Great mix of beginner and more challenging trails. Everything was well groomed. People were very friendly.”
- Paul, Google Review

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