Imagine the ultimate Ski or Snowboard Lesson with your Family and Friends. The Highlands SnowSports Academy will make it a reality. Customize your own Family Adventure Lesson by selecting up to five family members/friends of similar age and ability and let the fun begin. Our certified instructors will work on new skills, explore the mountain, skip lift lines and create lifetime memories.

Personal coaching sessions offering individual attention, more time spent sliding and gliding, and less time waiting in lift lines. Set goals and let our top coaches customize instruction to expand your skills at your pace, allowing you to explore or rediscover a life-long sport in a fun, friendly, and safe atmosphere. If availability allows, we recommend requesting your favorite instructor!

One-on-one instruction is the most effective way to boost your skills, and we offer private lessons for all ages and abilities that focus on alpine skiing, snowboarding, and race training. Set goals and let our top coaches customize instruction to expand your skills at your pace, allowing you to explore or rediscover a life-long sport in a fun, friendly, and safe atmosphere.

The Highlands cross country instruction program is designed to provide in-depth instruction for skiers at every level. With dozens of miles of professionally groomed trails, each moment of instruction translates to a world of greater enjoyment in the great outdoors. Our Cross Country Center offers a variety of instructional clinics, private and group lessons for cross country skiers of all ability levels.

This ski lesson package allows you to receive an all-day equipment rental, a two hour novice lesson and a beginner area lift ticket to hone your skills. Open to adults and youth.

Group ski lessons provide a great opportunity to improve your skills, have fun, and feel more confident on the snow. With an emphasis on technique, we strive to provide you or your child with solid skills to utilize throughout your skiing career while building a love of the sport through fun.

This snowboarding lesson package allows you to receive an all-day equipment rental, a two hour novice lesson and a beginner area lift ticket to hone your skills. By the end of your lesson you'll be stopping, turning, and have control on the hill so you can enjoy future days on the slopes. Advanced reservations are recommended. Open to all ages.

Group snowboard lessons provide a great opportunity to improve your skills, have fun, and feel more confident on the snow. With an emphasis on technique, we strive to provide you or your child with solid skills to utilize throughout your skiing career while building a love of the sport through fun.

We offer cross-country ski lessons, taught by northern Michigan's most skilled instructors. Make your adventure into the peace and quiet of northern Michigan even more enjoyable with cross country ski lessons at The Highlands.

Ignite your child's passion for the slopes and instill a lifelong love for skiing and riding. Whether you're looking to introduce your child to the sport or continue their development in the gates and across the mountain, The Highlands has a program to suit your needs.