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Make everyday a snow day!

The world's most comprehensive resource of information on indoor snow centres and dry slopes.

Welcome to snow365.com!

We make everyday a snow day by following the development of indoor snow centres (“snowdomes”), artificial surface ski slopes (“dry slopes”) and related ventures such as rotating ski decks, city centre snow events and artificial snow products.

Indoor snow centres have now been with us for more than 20 years and more than 50 are currently operational in over 20 countries worldwide, recently adding Russia and the USA to the growing list. Check out our slope finder.



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Artificial surface ski slopes using special manufactured surfaces have been with us for 50 years now and there are more than 250 operational worldwide from Brazil to Beijing. Although this is an older technology new slopes still open regularly and several companies are pushing forward design advances to meet the needs of modern snow sports.

The team that compiles Snow365 has been following the industry for more than 15 years and is in contact with the designers and builders of these incredible facilities all over the planet. We publish a monthly news digest of the latest developments in indoor snow and dry ski slopes which you can subscribe to, as well as a 250 page guide to all the indoor snow centres ever built and all the companies involved – The World Indoor Snow Centre Guide – which is available to purchase. 

 Where they exist, indoor snow centres can attract over a million visitors a year, indeed the UK’s Xscape at Castleford attracts more than three million visitors and is the UK most popular paying attraction. These numbers are equivalent to the world’s big ski resorts, so it’s no surprise that some leading conventional ski resorts fund or operate indoor snow facilities to grow new skier business for their destination resorts. But apart from Ski Dubai, many people have not heard of them. Those that have imagine these facilities only offer a short ski run, end of story. In fact these are multi purpose venues – check out our guide to “50 Things to Do On Indoor Snow.”

In these days of concerns over climate change, others imagine that indoor snow centres must be great producers of climate change gasses, but don’t look at the full picture - check out our overview to global warming and indoor snow centres. And if you’re as worried as we are about the end of snow because of climate change (Check out our sister site www.saveoursnow.com), you’ll perhaps find some solace in the fact that indoor snow facilities keep getting ever bigger and better. Enjoy!

 

 

 

 

 

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