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Ski at Black Butte Ranch
This winter, make the Ranch your base camp for a winter family vacation.
Winter recreation at the Ranch can involve the entire family. Whether you enjoy sledding, snowshoe excursions, cross country skiing or just making a snowman, the Ranch offers winter recreation in Central Oregon at it's best! Check out SkiOregon.org for inspiration and powder alerts.
With access to ten Oregon SnoParks within the Santiam Pass region of Central Oregon, the Ranch is the perfect location for fun winter vacation activities in the Central Oregon Cascades.
Big Meadow Golf Course sports groomed trails for cross country skiing and snowshoeing (when there is at least 6" of snow to avoid damage to the course). Glaze Meadow Golf Course is closed to all activity this winter, due to the renovation.
Rent snowshoes and cross country skis at the Glaze Meadow Rental Shop— 541.595.5877. The shop also takes care of equipment repair and tune ups and sells snopark permits and sleds. Check out the warm fleece, mittens and outerwear next door at the Glaze Meadow Sports Shop.
Ski packages and winter vacation packages at the Ranch 
are in partnership with Hoodoo Ski Area — located a convenient 10 minutes west of the Ranch on Hwy 20. The Ranch offers ski packages with ski lift tickets and children's tubing passes to the AutoBahn sled area at Hoodoo are also available.
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| 12/26 | Hoodoo re-opens Check the Hoodoo opening press release |
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| 12/31 | New Year's Eve at Hoodoo Ski Area 9am-9pm, Ski, music, fireworks & fun! |
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| 1/14 | Tele-Fest largest annual Telemark ski festival on the West Coast. |
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| 2/11 | Hoodoo Winter Carnival |
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| 2/18-20 | Presidents Day Weekend |
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| 2/25 | Nevado On-Snow Demo 10am-2pm |
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| 3/17 | Preview the New at Hoodoo |
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| 3/31 | Rodeo Day...Ride the mechanical bull and enter the chili cook off |
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| 4/7 | Hoodoo's Spring Fling with pond skimming, races and more |
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