The Frisco Adventure Park opened for the season Thanksgiving Day with sold-out reservations for the tubing hill that snowmaking staff finished preparing just in time for the season’s start.
The town-run operation located in the Peninsula Recreation Area will offer its usual snow tubing and a beginner ski and ride hill this winter, Adventure Park general manager Erin Socks said. Reservations are required for tubing.
“We generally always try to open on Thanksgiving Day, so as far as the start date, we’re thankfully right on track,” Socks said. “As far as snowmaking went, we did have some warm temps.”
As winter continues and the Frisco Nordic Center opens terrain, there will eventually be almost 30 kilometers of cross-country ski trails, snowshoe trails, a natural sledding hill, an avalanche rescue training park and a new rope-tow accessed terrain park at the recreation area, Socks said.
Over the past few weeks, the Frisco Adventure Park has been running its snow guns whenever it is cold enough overnight, especially in recent days as it has been getting colder, Adventure Park operations manager John Anicito said.
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“It’s been dry and really warm. Feels like we’re behind on our natural snowfall. The team has been working really hard to capitalize on all the cold temps that we’ve had,” Anicito said. “And we pulled it off.”
Snowmaking has now begun at the Nordic Center as well, which could open a week after the Adventure Park for local high school athletes to begin training, Socks said.
The Frisco Adventure Park is open Thursdays through Mondays, with reservations required for snow tubing and the ski and snowboard hill, which is schedule to open mid-December, depending on weather and snowfall, according to town officials.
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SnowSchoolers, a third-party business, will offer a ski and snowboard school at the Frisco Adventure Park hill once it opens. The town website says the ski and snowboard hill “offers a comfortably small and relaxed ski and snowboard experience for never-ever skiers, kiddos, or those who have not skied in a few years.”
The ski and snowboard hill and snow tubing season at the Adventure Park is scheduled to last through April 7 as weather conditions allow, according to the town website.
Staff will have a new tube storage building this season as part of the new $10-million Slopeside Hall project under construction adjacent to the existing Day Lodge, where Adventure Park operations are currently based.
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Expected to be completed in 2024, Slopeside Hall will bring new multi-use spaces for events and youth programs as well as office spaces for Adventure Park employees. The Day Lodge currently serves hot beverages and snacks throughout the season and upgrades to the cafe are expected after the completion of Slopeside Hall.
On Friday, Nov. 24, children and their families slid down the tubing hill under overcast skies as the winter season got started in Frisco.
“We highly encourage people to make sure to FriscoTubing.com, make sure they have a reservation,” Socks said. “We don’t want to break hearts when they walk in here with their kids and we tell them it’s sold out.”