The long-established indoor snow centre experts Unlimited snow have created what is believed to be the first intellectual property designed especially for snow parks, Miko’s World. Miko’s World is themed on a fun family of marmots, with main character Miko, his sister Maya along with mother Mutti, father Max and plenty of friends. The snowpark can be operated at any

A proposed indoor snow centre, Fairfax Peak, planned for a site in Northern Virginia has been given the latest green light it requires to proceed from officials at the local Fairfax County authority. The project, first announced nearly two years ago in June 2019, envisages a 520 metre (1700 feet) long indoor snow slope built on a 489-acre county-owned former

An indoor snow centre in Belgium that has been closed to the public due to the coronavirus pandemic for the past four months is spending €30,000 a month on electricity to maintain its snow. Snow Valley indoor snow centre has made almost all staff redundant and is eating into its financial reserves to keep going.  It has now been shuttered

The British operator of England’s Castleford and Milton Keynes indoor snow centres, Snozone Holdings Ltd, has taken over the operation the Madrid Snowzone in Spain. Madrid’s Snowzone, located in the Xanadu mall, which opened around 20 years ago at a similar time to the Snozone in Milton Keynes, has an interesting history.  It was originally built by the then dominant

Plans for a first indoor snow centre in Wales, planned for a former quarry site near Merthyr Tydfil, first announced several years ago, remain ‘live’ with the announcement that the project’s developers intend to submit a detailed planning proposal early this summer. At around 500 metres in length the Rhydycar West development will feature by far the longest slope in

The giant Sunac Snow Park in Guangzhou, the capital city of south China’s Guangdong Province, has reported “nearly two million visitors” in the seven months since it opened in June 2020, despite the pandemic, according to its management. Interviewed by China Global Television Network (CGTN) one snowboarder said he had quite his job and moved home to be closer to

With more than 30 indoor snow centres now operational (about a quarter of the world total), including several of the planet’s largest facilities. Chinas is already by far the world’s largest operator of these facilities. With the 2022 Winter Olympics – by which time China aimed to get 300 million people interested in ice or snow sports – now just

A new indoor snow centre called Snow World has opened in the Indian city of Ahmedabad. It is believed to be the 150th to be built worldwide, of which 115 are currently operational in 33 countries. Ahmemad is a city of 5.5 million people located north of Mumbai in the province of Gujarat on the West side of India.  Outdoor

A new world record has been set for the “Greatest Vertical Distance Skied Up and Downhill in 24 Hours (indoors)”. Snowsports instructor Callum Mackenzie (26) achieved this world record by scaling the 180m indoor slope at Chill Factore in Manchester 200 times, achieving a total vertical climb of 12,000 metres. As a result he skinning up the slope for a

One of the longest planned indoor snow centres in the Middle East will open in 2021, the company behind it says. Snow Park Abu Dhabi will be a ‘destination snow park attraction’ covering 11,600 square metres (125,000 sq ft park) with less of an onus on skiing and snowboarding, it is understood, but more on multi-snow fun activities including sledging