Trails are open. Happy Winter Solstice! One of the most special days of the year for us at Maplelag. A beautiful winter day on the trail!. Wind has finally settled down, temp is above 0 and we look to climb to a high of 20 today. Skate trails groomed this morning, and tracks reset on Twin Lakes, Island Lake, Loon Return and Rootin Tootin. Tracks reset today top picks for classic skiing.
Considering the weather roller coaster the past week, skiing is good. Base is rock solid hard after Tuesday warm up, cool down and warm up, and cool down again. We continue grooming daily to make conditions as best as possible. Watch for icy areas, mostly in the start areas, otherwise some nice skiing to be had, especially on the outer loops. A little bit of organic forest matter falling to the deck from the recent winds. Just Ski.
Use extra caution walking in the parking lots and start area which is icy. Once a short ways in the trails, conditions improve.
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!
Compacted base on trail 2-5″. Total snowfall in December: 11″. Snowfall in November: 7″. Snowfall YTD at 18″. October precipitation (rain) at 2.7″ and around 1″ in September. Total precipitation ytd (rain) at Maplelag is at 25.12″.
