It is located at Beidahu Village, Yongji County, Jilin City, 56 kilometers away from Jilin City urban area and 141 kilometers away from Changchun City. Initiating in 1993, it currently is the largest-scale ski resort with the most advanced equipment and best natural resources in China, and is the most important skiing base and ice and snow swimming center in the nation.

Beidahu Ski Resort possesses unique heaven-bestowed wavy terrain and snow and ice resources. The location is surrounded by mountains in three directions. There are nine peaks with an altitude of 1,200 meters. Blocked by mountains, the wind force is small in winter, there is a good snow condition, and the snow period is long. The snowing starts from every October and ends at the beginning of next April. The effective skiing period lasts over 100 days. There are 13 alpine ski runs, with a total length of 12.5 kilometers, at the resort. The resort has introduced a 2,200-meter 6-person box-mode high-speed detachable cableway and one 1,000-meter 4-person lift-mode high-speed detachable cableway from world’s top cableway producer Austrian Doppelmayr and a global advanced snowmaking system to increase snowmaking capacity by 32 hectares.