Rebuilt Selwyn Snow Resort set for June reopening

The Selwyn Snow Resort in NSW’s Alpine region is on target to open for the 2023 winter season having been rebuilt after being burned out in the bushfires of January 2020.

More than three years after the Resort was destroyed and with its structures rebuilt, electricity has now been restored to the location - powering up its lifts and snow-making machines for testing requirements.

Advising that the electricity restoration was exactly what the resort needed, Ewan Murdoch, Group Operations Manager of Resort owner the Blyton Group, also the owner of Charlotte’s Pass near Perisher, advised “all our infrastructure is sitting here waiting to go.

“We’ve had a great rebuild. All our lifts are better than before - it’s re-born. It’s the same resort, but it’s transformed. It’s brought us up to the 21st century.”

The Resort was planning to reopen last year in June 2022, but COVID-19-related material shortages and early snowfall made it impossible for the resort to be finished in time.

Now, with snowfalls across the alpine region over Easter suggesting encouraging climatic conditions for the winter, the Resort is well on track for its scheduled opening on 10th June.

Visitors to Selwyn Snow Resort will see a transformed resort. The new resort’s ‘Selwyn Centre’ will house all guest facilities and services in one building. The new Selwyn Centre will house an expanded Ski and Snowboard Hire, enhanced food and drink offerings and improved toilet amenities.

The Resort will be the first snow resort in the Southern Hemisphere to use brand new TT10 snow machines by TechnoAlpin, which - thanks to their next-generation technology - will enable snowmaking at temperatures more than two degrees warmer than the previous system.

Kevin James Blyton, Chairman of the Blyton Group, advised “with the long term future of Selwyn secured and construction underway, we look forward to the community being able to experience the new and improved Selwyn in winter 2023.

“(We) are excited for the future of the resort.”

Covering 110 acres of skiable area, serviced by eight lifts, Selwyn is popular with beginners, with 88% of its slopes rated ‘easy’. It also offers a racecourse run, a terrain park, 25 miles of cross-country skiing and a toboggan park.

Blyton Group, its owner and operator, purchased Selwyn Snow Resort in 2016.

Following the NSW Government’s announcement that an agreement has been reached on a new 40-year lease for Selwyn Snow Resort, the Blyton Group invested significantly in its rebuilding.

Images: Selwyn Snow Resort’s new Selwyn Centre in July 2022 (top, credit: Selwyn Snow Resort) and the award-winning TechnoAlpin TT10 snow cannon (below, credit: IF Design Awards).