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Birdcage at Banff Sunshine

Advanced · 663 m long with 156 m of vertical, averaging 13° and 21° at its steepest, facing E.

21°steepest 50 m
13°average pitch
663 mlength
156 mvertical
2323 mtop elevation
Efaces

Snow and sun

Birdcage is east-facing: morning sun, softens first and shades by early afternoon.

How to get to Birdcage

Lifts that reach the top: Wawa Quad Chair (skiing novice terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 38 minutes, advanced skiing needed):

  1. Ride Sunshine Village Gondola I
  2. Ride Sunshine Village Gondola II
  3. Ski Banff Avenue (easy)
  4. Ride Wawa Quad Chair
  5. Ski unnamed trail
  6. Ski Birdcage (advanced)

Where it ends

Joins Old T-Bar, Tilton Trail. Nearest lifts from the bottom: unnamed magic carpet (1 min), Wawa Quad Chair (2 min), Jackrabbit Quad (4 min).

See Birdcage on the 3D mapAll runs at Banff Sunshine
Measured from OpenStreetMap geometry and elevation via OpenSkiMap (ODbL). Times are rough. Grades, grooming and openings change day to day — check the resort's own reports.