Winter 2019/20 is going to be a big year at Manning Park Resort.
We celebrated the retirement of the beloved Orange Chair last year, and are now well underway installing our brand new Doppelmayr quad chairlift. Start planning your ski trips for you and 3 friends, because now you can all ride together!
We’re posting the progress of the new chair on our Facebook page, so be sure to follow us to see the updates.
Not only are we installing a new chairlift, but we are building a new Guest Services building that will house the Ticket Office, Rental Shop & Snow School. This large building is going to be in the village base, opposite the Daylodge.
While you may not recognize the ski hill when you get there next year, we know that you’ll still recognize the warm welcome and awesome snow that Manning Park Resort is known for!
New Enhanced Reciprocal Partner:
We are stoked to welcome a new partner to the Enhanced Reciprocal Agreement: You can now ride 2 free days at Baldy Mountain Resort. With your Manning Park Resort season pass, you get 2 free days at Baldy, as well as Apex, Mt. Seymour & Mt. Washington. This amazing deal gives you an addition $500+ value to your season pass.
Don’t miss out on what’s going to be an epic winter season next year: buy your Winter 2019/20 Season Pass now!
Drum roll please… here are the winners of the #IRodetheOrangeChair Photo & Story Contest!
–Gordon Gilgan with a lifetime of Manning memories and multiple generations since 1965. We loved your entry, Gordon!
–Sharon Christian and the Taipalus family. Through ski lessons and school trips, the Taipalus family brought thousands of people to know and love Manning as much as their family does.
–Stan & Lynn Hussey – this is our staff favourite pick! An engagement proposal in a snowstorm? That definitely made us fall in love with the story too!
Thank you to all our contest entries. Believe us, it was not an easy choice to make! The level of heartfelt emotion that was put into the stories was felt deeply while reading them. We truly understand how much love there is for this place called Manning Park, and we share it too.
… they were so good, we do have some runner-up prizes that we will be announcing this week as well… (sorry no chair!)
If you really wanted to get that coveted Orange Chair, get ready for the First Come, First Serve Sale tomorrow, March 22nd at 9am! Learn how to prep for the sale here.
And if you’d like to wait for the auction for charity, check it out here to see the details!
We’re getting down to it… Check the Orange Chair countdown on our website – only 12 days left until we call “Last Chair!”
Get up for your last turns this season before we take down the Orange Chair to be replaced with a brand new quad chair next year!
If you’re interested in getting one of the coveted Orange chairs, here’s how to prepare yourself for the First Come, First Serve Sale on March 22nd at 9am:
-The form will appear at 9:00am on March 22nd. Click refresh or reload on your browser precisely at this time to see the form.
-Questions are on the sale website right now. Have all your questions already typed out in a separate area so that you can copy and paste all your questions into the form. All the form questions are required to have an answer of some kind in them. (Clicking submit before all the answers are filled will show an error message.)
-Have all your credit card information ready. The form can take the payment through Secure Online Credit card, by using the credit card entry form on the sheet, or by choosing PayPal.
–Click “Submit”. Your chair is not secured until you have completed your form and clicked “Submit”. If your payment has gone through, you should get simple message saying that the form has been successfully completed. Once payment completion is confirmed, you will receive an email to the email address provided with confirmation of your purchased chair, a chair number and pick-up information. (This email may take up to a day)
-All chairs must be picked up, or arranged to be picked up on April 6th or 7th. Remember that it is approximately 10ft tall and 4ft wide so make sure to prepare for it!
***All chairs are as is (paint chips, graffiti, stickers and all!) No chair pads or grips included. It will need to be picked up in person (no shipping available) on April 6-7.
Limit one per family. ***
-After you’re done and can breathe a sigh of relief, hop over to this website to pre-order one of our Orange Chair commemorative t-shirts too!
If you go to the form and receive the following message: “The Orange Chair sale has now ended. We’re sorry if you missed this sale!” it means that all the chairs are sold out in the First Come, First Serve Sale. We’re sorry you missed it!
But you do have two more chances to get an Orange Chair through our Auction for Charity! There are 10 chairs up for grabs in these two auctions:
These auctions benefit 5 great local Manning Park charitable organizations. Pay what you want to have a piece of Manning Park history and know that your dollars are going to a great cause. Bonus – you may receive a charitable tax receipt for this donation!
We are also saving a few key chairs to use around the Resort, so if you don’t get one, don’t worry, you will still get to have your #IRodeTheOrangeChair moment at Manning Park Resort for years to come.
Come celebrate with us for our “Last Chair Fest” on March 31st, where we will be paying homage with a toast to the Orange Chair and having a great last day of the season. Join us to celebrate and send it off in style!
Hopefully, you have already heard the exciting news out of Manning Park Resort this year – we are taking down the iconic Orange Chair at the end of this season to be replaced in winter 2019/20 with a brand-new quad chairlift!
We are so excited about the new quad, but we also recognize how iconic and special the Orange Chair has been for our guests and Manning Park for the 49 years that it has been in service.
Since we made the announcement that the Orange Chair will be taken down, we have been inundated with calls from our local community asking what will happen with the Orange Chair chairs once it is retired this year.
We know how much you love and treasure the memories you’ve created on the Orange Chair and at Manning Park Resort, and we’re grateful to share many of those awesome memories with you.
Here is the game plan for how we’re planning to divest of our iconic Orange Chair chairs.
If you are interested in having one of these big hunks of metal that have a lifetime of memories on them, we’ve got a few ways to get your hands on one.
3 Ways to Get an Orange Chair
1. #IRodeTheOrangeChair Contest
If you want an Orange Chair – tell us about it! What does the Orange Chair mean to you and what is your greatest memory about it and Manning Park?
Was it the first chairlift you rode when you graduated from the Bunny Hill? Was it your first job to run it as a lift operator? Did you get engaged on it?
We want to hear your story & to see a photo that commemorates your good memories of the Orange Chair.
We’ve got 3 chairs to give away in this contest. Enter on Facebook or Instagram by using the hashtag #IRodeTheOrangeChair
Contest will run from February 25 – March 20th. Winners will be judged and chosen on March 21st.
#2. First Come, First Serve Sale on March 22nd at 9am.
This is it. If you love Manning Park so much that you can’t imagine not having a giant Orange Chair on your front lawn, then this is the place to be.
To apply to get a chair, you have to be online at the time and place noted, with credit card in hand, as well as some skill testing questions. To see the link and the form questions that will be asked, visit this website: https://manningpark.com/orange-chair-sale/
The price is $250.
Have your credit card, and your answers ready to go to copy and paste into the form in order to be processed as quick as you can.
We’ve had a lot of interest in the chairs and we are expecting this to sell out quickly, so if you are keen, be ready!
3. Auction for Charity!
So you didn’t win the contest, and you missed the First Come, First Serve Sale, well you still have two more chances to pay to have an iconic chair.
We have chosen 5 charitable organizations that live and play in Manning Park. You can bid for a chair from the organization of your choice, with 100% proceeds going to them!
These two auctions are your very last chance! Pay what you want to have a piece of Manning Park history and know that your dollars are going to a great cause. Bonus – you will receive a charitable tax receipt for this donation!The five charitable organizations are:
–Hope Mountain Centre for Outdoor Learning is a registered charity working to strengthen people’s connection with nature by offering outdoor events for all ages and abilities, spanning all seasons.
–Manning Park Interpretive Programs: offered daily throughout the summer, these important programs teach us how to connect with and love E.C. Manning Provincial Park. *A tax receipt is available for this program through the Hope Mountain Centre for Outdoor Learning
–Manning Ski Club: this parent-run group is aimed at getting kids out on the mountain skiing!
–Canadian Ski Patrol: these awesome volunteers have been keeping us safe on the mountain since 1941
–Friends of Manning Park: is a not-for-profit coalition of recreational users that partner with each other and BC Provincial Parks to protect and maintain the historic, conservation and recreation values of E. C. Manning Park. through collaboration and volunteer efforts in planning, trail maintenance, fund raising educational events and historic recognition.
***All chairs will be as is (paint chips, graffiti, stickers and all!), and will need to be picked up in person (no shipping available) on April 6-7.
Limit one per family.***
We are also saving a few key chairs to use around the Resort, so if you don’t get one, don’t worry, you will still get to have your #IRodeTheOrangeChair moment at Manning Park Resort for years to come.
We know that March is going to be a big month at Manning Park – we’re still getting awesome snow conditions, and we’ve got some great events on, like the Rockstar Rail Jam, a new Guided Snowshoe Fondue date and our ever popular Spring Fest.
We also invite you to come celebrate with us for our “Last Chair Fest” on March 31st, where we will be paying homage with a toast to the Orange Chair and having a great last day of the season. Join us to celebrate and send it off in style! This is also Season Passholder Appreciation day.
Thank you for your interest and we look forward to celebrating the last days of the Orange Chair before we welcome in the brand new quad chairlift next year!
