Updated 21 May 2026
While most guests are asleep, Falls Creek’s snowmaking and grooming teams are hard at work across the resort turning cold temperatures into quality snow conditions.
From the glow of snow guns lighting up Wombat’s Ramble to groomers shaping runs before sunrise, snowmaking plays a huge role in helping deliver the Falls Creek winter experience from June through to spring.
As part of our ongoing investment in the guest experience, Falls Creek has continued to enhance and expand its snowmaking capabilities across the resort in recent years, helping maximise snow production opportunities whenever temperatures drop. These upgrades allow our teams to respond quickly to favourable conditions and efficiently build and maintain key terrain throughout the season.
Building reliable winter conditions
Snowmaking is one of the most important tools in helping create a consistent and reliable snow experience across the resort. Located across much of our beginner and intermediate terrain, Falls Creek’s snowmaking network helps provide quality coverage on some of our most popular runs, including Wombat’s Ramble, Drovers Dream, Main Street, Nastar, Broadway, Scott's and Ruined Castle.
Reliable snowmaking coverage is especially important during the early season, helping guests access more terrain sooner and supporting progression areas used by beginner skiers and snowboarders, Snowsports lessons and family holidays.
One of the most recent upgrades to Falls Creek’s snowmaking network included enhanced automated snowmaking on Drovers Dream, one of the resort’s most popular beginner and low intermediate areas. Running alongside Falls Creek’s terrain parks and overlooking Rocky Valley Lake, Drovers Dream plays an important role in creating accessible learning terrain early in the season.
The addition of modern automated Techno Alpin snow guns across the resort has improved efficiency and allowed the team to maximise snowmaking opportunities during cold weather windows. These upgrades support improved early season terrain access and help maintain quality conditions later into spring.