Skiing in Weardale

This might be a surprise, but you can actually go skiing in Weardale.

Weardale Ski Club was founded in 1963, and set up at Swinhope Fell in a NE facing snow sure bowl above Westgate in Weardale. The club flourished and the original rope tows were replaced with two Doppelmayr button tows from Austria.

The Club now has a spacious two storey ski lodge and work shop, a snowmobile, snowblower and a Kassbohrer piste basher.