Listen, I love Lakeridge's slopes. They have good variety and challenging slopes and I learned and made my way up to Black Diamond here. If I had the money, I would come back here every year.
In 2022, they had a 3 night pass (Tues-Thurs) which was great, very affordable to me who worked 2 part time min wage jobs where I always worked weekends and didn't have the availability for an all day or all night pass. So this was a perfect option for me, and cheaper than Dagmar. The only thing that sucked was that they open weekends early December and don't open weekdays until Christmas holidays. It was annoying to wait longer when I had a pass, but nothing I could do. They also closwd weekdays after March break - also a surprise to me, but I just enjoyed my last day and shrugged it off.
In 2023, they removed their 3 night, 4 night, and 5 night passes and were experimenting this stupid tier system payment method, where they had limited tickets in the cheapest range, then moved up to tier 2 pricing after they sold their cheapest tier 1 tickets, then after tier 2 was sold they moved to 3. They only offered all night, weekdays only, or weekends. Since I missed early bird priving, the weekday pass as the cheapest was still about the same as Dagmar's cheapest - maybe a bit more, but I still found more value in going with Lakeridge than Dagmar's, which moved to about $400 by the time I was buying. Lakeridge's was about $425, and there was nothing I could do by that time, so I sighed and spent $200 more than the year previous to go to the place I preferred.
In 2024, I checked this time for March early bird sales. Dagmar had a great deal for any night pass at around the same price I spent for my Lakeridge 3 night pass 2 years before. And Lakeridge's "early bird deal"? THE SAME PRICE that I spent the previous year, at the tier 1 level. So basically not a deal at all. I later realized the reason must have been because they got in some fancy new 6 person chairlift, and probably needed ticket prices to be a bit higher to pay for that, recover their funds. I understood that, but I still went to Dagmar this season. The runs are repetitive, one of the chairlifts makes me sick, but the staff and even the clientele are friendlier, and even though it's smaller and less exciting, and hills easier, the vibe was just wonderful. But I still missed my Lakeridge hills.
Now in 2025, I checked again for early bird, and Dagmar had the exact same price as last year's pass I bought, down to the tax. And I bought it, because Lakeridge was even MORE expensive than the year before! That $425 for the cheapest pass is now $446 and the night pass is almost 2x the price of Dagmar's night pass. With tax their cheapest ends up being $200 more than Dagmar's cheapest. They didn't even falsely offer any early bird sales like last year, just skipping straight to that stupid tier system. My guess is that they're still paying off their fancy chairlift, but until their prices go down to affordable Dagmar levels, I will continue to enjoy my time at Dagmar and dream about Lakeridge's hills that I became so familiar with. Until I meet money, Lakeridge.
On another note, if you want to tube and want to avoid the lines, go at 7:30. We didn't go down once until 8:00, but at least people started to leave, their times having expired, and me and my best friend were basically arriving up top with the attendants waiting for us. We got in at...
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