Typically, Memorial Day is regarded as the unofficial kickoff of summer. This year, for Boyne Mountain Resort, it marked something else: the official end of ski season.

Boyne celebrated the holiday weekend with a last hurrah for the 2025-26 season, opening the its Victor Glacier run from 9am-1pm on Memorial Day for what it calls “Michigan’s latest ski season ever.” Boyne has never made it Memorial Day with skiable snow on any of its slopes, but the resort was able to welcome dozens of skiers on Monday for the record-breaking celebration.

According to a blog post on Boyne’s website, this milestone has been in the works since two summers. It was then that Boyne “overhauled the snowmaking infrastructure on Victor.” Those improvements increased the capacity of the system and allowed for “denser coverage” on the hill all season. They also assured that Boyne could “absolutely hammer the run when the time came” to go for a late-season record.

Per Boyne, the Victor Glacier run had more than 21 feet of snow at its peak this season, part of a concentrated post-Christmas effort of “building it for the long haul.” That process included running the snow guns on the hill whenever possible, as well as stockpiling snow elsewhere that could be “pulled onto Victor as needed.” Add a cold spring and the approximately 170 inches of natural snow that got dumped on the mountain during this (very snowy) winter, and Boyne was able to achieve its goal of keeping “lift-served skiing” going all the way through Memorial Day.

Chris Adams, Boyne’s vice president of mountain experience, described the make-it-to-Memorial-Day project as a showcase of Boyne's “commitment to our season pass holders that we have the best snowmaking system and are committed to using it for them,” as well as “a flex to show what we can do.”