Big White Ski Resort buried in snow. Big White Ski Resort Big White Ski Resort, or simply Big White, is a ski resort located southeast of Kelowna in the Southern Interior of British Columbia. Located on Big White Mountain, the highest summit in the Okanagan Highland, an upland area between the Monashee Mountains and the Okanagan Valley, it is the third largest resort in British Columbia, after Whistler-Blackcomb and Sun Peaks. The mountain summit is at with a vertical drop of , serviced by 16 lifts. The mountain receives 750 cm of annual snowfall. It has of overall skiable terrain. With of night skiing,
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