Cypress Mountain history

In 1986 the ski area closed off winter access to Hollyburn except for their paying customers, citing their Park Use Permit 1506, resulting in a Ski-In protest organized by the Save Cypress Bowl Committee, during which lawyer John Beltz was arrested and driven off in a Snow-Cat.

In 1988, the Municipality of West Vancouver proposed construction of a golf course on the land south of the CBRL Works Yard.

In 1990 a new Cypress Park Master Plan process was initiated and Cypress Bowl Recreations Ltd. (CBRL), the private ski company in the park, was interested in expanding downhill ski operations onto Hollyburn Mountain.

In 1994 the ski area employed the same pressure tactics as outlined above, and blocked access to the Yew Lake area in winter unless a full ski lift Day Pass was purchased.

In 1995 the Province established the Cypress Park Special Planning Commission (“Williams Commission”) in response to a lawsuit launched by CBRL against the Province and several BC Parks officials.

By 2000, the principal in CBRL wanted to sell.

After Cypress was purchased by Boyne Resorts in 2001, the original chairlift on Black Mountain was replaced by the Eagle Express, a detachable quad chair built by Doppelmayr.

In 2002 a Province newspaper article reported that Boyne Resorts had abandoned the previous owner's plan.

Under a 2004 Master Plan Amendment, ski area expansion was moved to the previously logged slopes of Black Mountain and the gondola and restaurant plans for Mt.

In 2007 the Raven Ridge Quad Chair and 9 new ski runs were built on Black Mountain.

Instead, new development, including the 2010 Venues, was built on Black Mountain's east-facing slopes in second-growth forest in an area logged more than thirty years ago for ski area construction.

When CNL was wound up, the ski operation was sold to Och-Ziff Capital Management, but Cypress Mountain Resort was then bought back by Boyne Canada in March 2018.