Panorama Mountain Resort is 18 kilometres west of Invermere in BC’s Columbia Valley. The summit, on the Goldie Plateau above Taynton Bowl, is 2,450 metres (8,038 feet) and the base 1,150 metres (3,773 feet), for 1,300 metres (4,265 feet) of vertical. There are 2,975 patrolled acres and 136 named trails. Ten lifts serve them: the Village Gondola, two express quads, two quads, a triple, a double, a platter and two carpets. Panorama averages 520 centimetres (204 inches) of snow a year, and the season runs from December to April.
Taynton Bowl was once heli-skiing terrain. It’s now inside the boundary, patrolled and avalanche controlled, with 750 acres of black runs and the longest run on the mountain at 6.5 kilometres. The free Village Gondola links the day parking in the lower village to the upper village and the lifts. Panorama is owned by a group of local homeowners and investors.
All eight Panorama cams are stills that refresh about every 15 minutes, and the resort’s webcam page can play each one as a timelapse. Three Goldie Plateau cams look east, west and south from the top of Taynton Bowl at 2,450 metres. The Summit Cam is at the top of the Summit Quad at 2,365 metres, and the Champagne Express Cam is at the top of that lift at 2,160 metres, where the resort’s mid-mountain weather station is. The Mile 1 Express Cam is at 1,560 metres, and the Village and Showoff cams are down at 1,180 metres.
Check the Village cam for the base and the Goldie Plateau cams for the top before you drive up.
From Calgary, take Highway 1 west and Highway 93 south through Banff and Kootenay national parks to Invermere, then drive 18 kilometres west to the resort. Calgary International Airport (YYC) is 311 kilometres away and is the most common way in, with airport transfers in winter. Canadian Rockies International Airport (YXC) in Cranbrook is 161 kilometres away.
Once you cross into BC, winter tires or chains are required on Highway 93 and on Highway 93/95 to Invermere from October 1 to April 30. A legal winter tire has the M+S or mountain snowflake mark and at least 3.5 millimetres of tread. DriveBC shows road conditions.
Panorama is on the Ikon Pass with 7 days and the Ikon Base Pass with 5 days, and the Ikon Session Pass can be used here too. It’s also on the Mountain Collective, with 2 days, no blackout dates and half off extra days. Panorama isn’t on the Epic or Indy Pass.