Every year starting in mid-February Vancouver’s Cypress Mountain ski hill offers special ski pass deals including their Silver and Cypress Gold season passes.

This article describes special rates offered by Cypress Mountain. Grouse Mountain has similar deals with its Y2Play Passes. Mt. Seymour usually has Special Season’s Pass Deals offered around the same time of year too.

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Cypress Silver eXtra and other Ski Pass Special Deals

If you want to ski regularly at Cypress the best deal, arguably, is to get a Silver eXtra Season Pass. They come available around mid-February each year. Other great options include the regular Silver and Cypress Gold passes. Below we describe the benefits of each, plus additional options you can purchase with them.

(Note: Cypress ski pass details are subject to change and certain restrictions apply. The details described below are accurate to the best of our knowledge. Check the official Cypress Mountain website though for exact information.)

Cypress Silver eXtra Pass

The Silver eXtra Season Pass is more or less Cypress Mountain’s equivalent of Grouse Mountain’s Y2Play Pass. Both offer Vancouver skiers valuable savings. Most years they also include access to their respective ski hills during the last few weeks of one season in addition to all of the following year’s ski season too.

(Note: The Silver eXtra Pass is different from Cypress Mountain’s regular Silver Pass which is described further below. To learn about the Regular Silver Pass instead, scroll down a bit or click Regular Silver Passes.)

Silver eXtra Pass BENEFITS

Benefits of having the Silver eXtra Pass for 2025/26 include unlimited skiing and snowboarding every day except for the week of December 26th, 2025, to January 2nd, 2026 (when it’s usually crazy crowded anyway).

Another benefit of the Silver eXtra Pass is the discount on Cypress ski tickets purchased during the exclusion dates of the week after Christmas.

One more benefit for Silver eXtra passholders is the ability to pay an additional fee to get access to Cypress Mountain’s cross-country ski trails, tubing runs, snowshoeing terrain and the Lights to the Lodge snowshoe trail for the full season. The extra fee is just $75 (which, for that price, is a great deal)!

Lastly, Silver eXtra passholders receive 50% off at any Boyne Resorts, including Loon Mountain, Big Sky and more. They also get a 15% discount at Big Bear Sports and at the Cypress Downhill Repair Shop for repairs, tuning and more.

In 2025 Y2Play Passes for adults cost $489 for existing Grouse Mountain passholders and $539 for new purchasers. New passes for seniors start at $249 and for children they cost between just $39 and $169. To learn more see our article about the Y2Play Pass.

2025 Silver eXtra Pass RATES

Below are the rates for the 2025/26 Silver eXtra Passes (exclusive of taxes). To learn about the Regular Silver Pass instead, click Regular Silver Passes.

Adults (ages 26 to 64) – $689 (so about $40 more than last year)
Young Adult (ages 18 to 25) – $529
Youth (ages 13 to 17) – $459 (so about $30 more than last year)
Seniors (ages 65+) – $459 (so about $30 more than last year)
Children (ages 6 to 12) – $139 (so about $22 more than last year)
Little Folk (a.k.a. Skooters) (ages 0 to 5) – $59 (so about $10 more than last year)

Age Category Definitions

Age categories are as of November 1st. In other words, if your child is 5 in February but turns 6 in the summer you have to pay the higher “children’s” rate. If your child doesn’t turn 6 until early November or later, however, and you purchase his or her pass prior to November 1st, you can pay the cheaper rate for 5-year-olds. With passes bought after November 1st, though, a person’s current age at the time of purchase applies.)

Mt. Baker View from Cypress Chairlift — View of Mt. Baker from Cypress Mountain

Cypress Regular Silver & Gold Passes

In addition to the limited-time sale of Silver eXtra Passes, Cypress also offers regular Silver Passes as well as Gold and Cross-Country Ski Passes at around the same time.

Regular Silver Passes

People can buy regular Silver Passes for the 2025/26 season.

The regular Silver Pass is similar to Cypress Mountain’s Silver eXtra Pass but with fewer extra benefits and more restrictions. They also cost less.

The regular Silver Pass comes with the option to pay just $75 extra for unlimited cross-country skiing, tubing and snowshoeing at Cypress. A significant drawback of the regular Silver Pass, when compared to the Silver eXtra Pass, is the additional blackout period of every weekend in January and February.

The above restriction means that if you want to ski on Saturdays or Sundays during the first two months of the new year, in addition to during the week immediately after Christmas, with the regular Silver Pass you have to pay extra. You have to buy yourself day lift tickets, although you can get them at a discount. For many people though, it’s worth the inconvenience (especially for folk who can ski on weekdays).

Regular Silver Pass Rates

Prices for the Silver Passes as of the spring of 2025 are below. The prices in brackets () are from the previous season.

Adults (ages 26 to 64) – $499 (compared to $479 last year)
Young Adults (ages 18 to 25) – $409 ($389 last season)
Youth (ages 13 to 17) – $359 ($349 last season)
Seniors (ages 65+) – $359 ($349 last season)
Children (ages 6 to 12) – $119 ($112 last season)
Little Folk (ages 0 to 5) – $59 ($49 last season)

Man at Edge of Cypress — Admiring the View at Cypress

Cypress Gold Season Passes

Gold Passes allow ticket holders to ski and snowboard for one full season at Cypress with no restrictions. It’s like a regular season’s pass, but cheaper than if you pay for it in the fall or at other times in the season.

For comparison, with the Silver Pass you pay less but then can’t ski for free during peak times between Christmas and the end of February. If you want to ski during the blackout periods you have to buy discounted day tickets. With the Gold Pass, on the other hand, you pay a higher price but can ski whenever you want.

Prices for the 2025/26 Cypress Gold Pass as of mid-March in 2025 are the following. (In brackets are the prices from the previous season.)

Adults (ages 26 to 64) – $799 (compared to $849 last season)
Young Adult (ages 18 to 25) – $599
Youth (ages 13 to 17) – $499 (was $549 last season)
Seniors (ages 65+) – $499 (was $549 last season)
Children (ages 6 to 12) – $199 (was $319 last season)
Little Folk (ages 0 to 5) – $59 (was $49 last season)

Cypress Cross-Country Season Passes

In addition to the various downhill pass specials, Cypress also offers cross-country ski passes for the following season.

Cross-country passes for the 2025/26 season cost the following in mid-March, 2025.

Adults (ages 26 to 64) – $349
Young Adults (ages 18 to 25) – $319
Youth (ages 13 to 17) – $219
Seniors (ages 65+) – $219
Children (ages 6 to 12) – $165
Little Folk (ages 0 to 5) – $40

An extra benefit for cross-country season passholders is that they get a 15% discount retail sales at Big Bear Sports.

Also, for an additional fee, passholders can get a “Nordic Plus” membership where they also get unlimited access to Cypress Mountain’s tubing and snowshoeing trails for the full season. In 2025 the cost for the “Nordic Plus” benefit is $59.

Riding the Cypress Tubing Lift — Tubing at Cypress

Spring Season & Beach Passes

In addition to the Regular Silver and Gold Passes, new passholders of all ages can usually pay and get to ski for the remainder of the current season.

In 2025 the Beach Pass allows passholders to ski from March 3rd until the end of the spring season. It costs about $219 per person.

Cypress Pass Protection

In addition to the various passes and optional “add-ons”, skiers can also purchase Pass Protection when they buy their season passes. For $50 or so you get a pro-rated insurance policy that protects the value of your purchase should there not be at least 76 days of operation next season.

The way Pass Protection works, basically, is for each day less than 76 that Cypress is open, Cypress will put 1% of the price of your ski pass towards a pass for the following season.

Other Information

For more information about Cypress and its various ski pass options click Cypress Season Passes.

To learn more about the ski resort in general, see the official Cypress Mountain website or check out our article about Cypress Ski Hill.

For information about other similar resorts in the Vancouver area click Lower Mainland Ski Hills or Vancouver Ski Hills & Snow Conditions.

For information about ski deals at what is arguably Cypress Mountain’s biggest nearby rival, click Grouse Mountain’s Y2Play Pass. Or, click Mt. Seymour Season’s Pass Deals to learn what the North Shore’s other ski hill has to offer too.

Other articles you might be interested in include the following:

Vancouver Winter Activities
Vancouver on a Budget
Lower Mainland Activities for Children
Vancouver Outdoor Recreation
Metro Vancouver’s Top 100 Places
Vancouver in February (where you can click to other monthly calendars of events too)

For information about the biggest ski resort in the province see the website WhatToDoInWhistler.ca. For details about the ski hill closest to Victoria, BC, (on Vancouver Island), see the website VictoriasBestPlaces.com.