Trails are open. A great day hosting the 29th DL Invitational Nordic Ski meet. Over 400 skiers representing teams from the central and nw part of the state. (click here for results) Got very warm with high temperature at 46 before cooling down in the evening and freezing down hard. The tracks are a bit icy and fast and the skate deck is a bit rough and hardpack. We are waiting to groom until the snow dries out and plan to groom on select trails mid morning. Looks to be warm again in the afternoon which will soften the deck and provide better skiing. The base held out great and the snow transformation will only make the base more durable.

Skating on Skaters Waltz, the extension loops, North Loup, Single Green, Kristin’s Kutoff and Eira Bikwadinaa Hill. All other trails are tracked for classic skiing. (Please no skating on classic trails) Sukkerbusk is a great starter trail for classic which feeds the outer trails and crosses most of the inner trails providing a good “lay of the land”. 

17″ of snow so far this season. We have been grooming daily on the entire trail system the past two weeks. 

Thank you to everyone that comes to ski and supports the trails with season pass purchases. Day passes can be purchased here. A MN State trail pass is NOT required to ski at Maplelag. The Maplelag trails are self funded by operations with no grants or state funding. 

 Fat bike trails are not groomed yet. Click here for fat bike trail report.

We had a great Autumn of Fall grooming clearing leaves and debris off the trails and the new snow is packing in well with the clean deck before the snow. 

We cleared over 600 trees since the Solstice 2025 storm. Big thanks to everyone that has helped!

Total snowfall in December: 10″. Snowfall in November: 7″. Snowfall YTD at 16″. October precipitation (rain) at 2.7″ and around 1″ in September. Total precipitation ytd (rain) at Maplelag is at 25.12″.