Cerro Castor

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The newest in Argentina and, like everything in Ushuaia, the southernmost in the world, Castor Mount opens its fifth season. Very close to Tierra del Fuego capital city, where the sea and the mountains meet to be the protagonists of a dazzling geography, Castor is only 195 meters over sea level and its top rises to 1,057 meters.

With a skiable slop that reaches 772 meters, Cerro Castor distributes a total of 26 trails with different degrees of difficulty and off-piste areas along 30 kilometers. Its circuits cross lenga forests and are also suitable for snowshoeing.

Unlike the general belief, Castor enjoys very good weather and the best quality of powder snow, due to the stability of its temperature, offering one of the longest seasons in South America.

Modern lifts, skiing and snowboarding school, and all the services that complement the infrastructure and Ushuaia scenery, turn Castor Mount into a complete resort, to ski in the confines of the world.

News 2011

Cerro Castor and its news for this 2011 winter season, from June 17 thru October 10: 4 months to ski and enjoy this ski resort which has something new to offer every year.

Cuisine: Construction of a new restaurant at 420m MSL, seating 330 customers, at the foot of the snowpark.

Trails: Summer conditioning works on the following trails: Los Cauquenes, Pájaro Carpintero, Los Ñires, Piedra Negra and Águila Mora.
Reopening of Las Lajas trail, upper area (red trail), with the corresponding safety and protection nets.
New green trail called "Bandurria" (850 meters long) running between "Los Cauquenes" and "Líquen" up to the base of the new restaurant at 420m MSL, making up a total of 28 skiable kilometers.

Services: Enlargement and automation of the artificial snow system up to the intermediate trails area, with a total amount of 12 cannons that guarantee snow up to the base during the entire season. More precisely, this new water line has been created in order to feed the artificial snow cannons at "Las Rocas" red trail.

Equipment: Renovation of 30% of the rental equipment at Cerro Castor (skies, boots, snowboards and helmets).
Incorporation of a new PB 300 Kassborher snow groomer, called Park Bully, which enables specific works on the snowpark. With the addition of this new machine, Cerro Castor has a total number of 6 within its equipment.
New lift access control system (SKIDATA).

Useful data

How to Get There: located 26 km from Ushuaia, where there is an international airport and a tourist harbor for large size vessels. It can also be accessed by land through National Route 3.

Season: from 06/17 thru 10/12.

Weather: in winter, temperatures range between 5º and -5ºC.

Activities: skiing, snowboarding, snowblading

Services: school, first aid stand, boutique.