A four-season expansion is taking shape at Revelstoke Mountain Resort in British Columbia, with a 155-room hotel, an 18-hole championship golf course, and new food-and-beverage venues all slated to open in 2027 — signaling a significant push to capture group travel and leisure spending beyond the ski season.
The Karl Hotel
The centerpiece of the expansion is The Karl, a full-service hotel designed to serve both leisure travelers and corporate groups. The property will feature a range of room and suite configurations, a spa with hot tubs and sauna, and a fitness center. On the dining side, Chop Steakhouse & Bar will anchor the food-and-beverage offering — a branded restaurant concept that positions the hotel as a destination in its own right, not just lodging adjacent to the slopes. For the meetings and events market, The Karl will offer more than 8,500 square feet of flexible event space, making it a viable venue for corporate retreats, conferences, weddings, and incentive travel. The property will also serve as the check-in point for Cabot Revelstoke golf and Selkirk Tangiers Heli Skiing, consolidating the resort's signature experiences under one roof.
Golf, Events, and F&B Synergy
The 18-hole Cabot Revelstoke course, developed with luxury golf brand Cabot and designed by Canadian architect Rod Whitman, opens to the public in 2027. Alongside it, The Rail Yard will combine a par-3 short course with a clubhouse, golf simulators, and a duckpin bowling alley — a leisure-and-dining concept that blends entertainment with hospitality in a format increasingly popular at resort properties. For operators and hospitality professionals tracking resort F&B and event space trends, Revelstoke's model is worth watching: bundling a branded steakhouse, flexible meeting space, and lifestyle amenities into a single hotel property is a strategy built for high-yield group business.
"Our resort is the newest chapter in that story. Everything we're building at the base, from The Karl to our new residential communities, gives more people a reason to stay and be part of it, and we're doing it with the same care for these mountains that drew people here in the first place," said Jason Kelder, President of Revelstoke Mountain Resort.
Storytelling as a Marketing Tool
To build momentum ahead of the 2027 openings, RMR launched Mountain in the Making, a three-part film series produced by Sherpas Cinema. Episode one, Humble Beginnings, is now live on the resort's website, tracing Revelstoke's origins as a railway town with skiing roots dating to the 1890s. Episodes Adventure Seekers and The Next Chapter follow on November 19 and 26, with the final installment focused squarely on the hotel, golf course, and new residential communities. The content strategy reflects a broader hospitality marketing shift toward long-form storytelling that sells place and community as much as amenities — particularly relevant for resorts competing for high-value guests who have options across North America and beyond.
RMR, part of Northland Properties, already holds the distinction of offering the most lift-served vertical in North America at 1,713 metres (5,620 feet). The Revelstoke Skywalk, a 75.5-metre suspension bridge 1,250 metres above the Columbia Valley, opened last June and anchors the summer experience. With The Karl, Cabot Revelstoke, and The Rail Yard coming online in 2027, the resort is making a clear bid to extend average length of stay and grow non-ski revenue — a priority for virtually every mountain resort operator in an era of climate variability and intensifying competition for group business.
Written by Michael Politz, Author of Guide to Restaurant Success: The Proven Process for Starting Any Restaurant Business From Scratch to Success (ISBN: 978-1-119-66896-1), Founder of Food & Beverage Magazine, the leading online magazine and resource in the industry. Designer of the Bluetooth logo and recognized in Entrepreneur Magazine's "Top 40 Under 40" for founding American Wholesale Floral, Politz is also the Co-founder of the Proof Awards and the CPG Awards and a partner in numerous consumer brands across the food and beverage sector.
