Ski Trail

Ski Trail Report

Trails are open. A busy Sunday for Winter Solstice skiing, great seeing everyone out, thanks for supporting the trails. It has been quite a week of roller coaster weather but the trails are holding out well with a rock solid base of 2-5″. The start areas are icy but once in the woods down the trail a ways, skiing improves. We will continue touching up the trails as we can as it gets a bit more tricky grooming the snow. Most recent grooming on Twin Lakes, Island Lake, Loon Return and Rootin Tootin. Along with JibFly, these are recommended trails for classic skiing. Good reports from Roy’s Run as well and Sukkerbusk is skiing fine considering the heavy use. 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.    

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″.

Ready for a morning on the western trails, December 21st, 2025.
Cutting new track on Island Lake trail, December 21s,t 2025.
Resetting new track on Twin Lakes trail, December 21st, 2025.
Renovating and resetting track on Island Lake trail, December 21st, 2025.
Skate trail grooming on Single Green trail, December 20th, 2025.
Morning ski waving the flag, December December 20th, 2025.
Skate trail grooming on Skaters Waltz extension, December 20th, 2025.
Late afternoon ski on JibFly, December 19th, 2025. Groomer’s choice!
Moorhead Nordic ski team members on North Loup, day 1 training camp, December 19th, 2025.
Skaters Waltz skating, December 19th, 2025.
Using the “Ginzu” groomer on Rootin Tootin trail to set new track, December 19th, 2025. The blades mix and old new snow together to provide material to set new track. 
Grooming skate deck on North Loup, December 19th, 2025.
Resetting track on Sukkerbusk, December 18th, 2025. Any track not set is improved with the fresh snow, albeit a bit slower until skied in. 
Grooming on Skaters Waltz extension mixing new snow with the frozen granulated base, December 18th, 2025. Best skating will be on the skater extension loops and North Loup. 
Ski at dusk on Sukkerbusk, nice conditions and skiing in the woods, December 18th, 2025.
Skiing past the “Maplelag Moose”, December 18th, 2025.
Afternoon skate ski, December 17th, 2025. Icy in the morning, much better in afternoon after grooming. 
Beaver off track?
Building up the base in the start area, December 17th, 2025.
Start of the girls varsity race, DL Invite, December 16th, 2025. 
Start of the girls junior varsity race, DL Invite December 16th, 2025.
Boys Varsity start DL Invite, December 16th, 2025.
Final day of ski camp for St Paul Highland Park Nordic ski team, December 14th, 2025. Nice job skiing in the cold this weekend!