Chester Bowl Improvement Club

Alpine ski-snowboard program: during the winter, cbic operates a popular alpine ski and snowboard area located within a city of duluth park that has enabled generations of minnesotans to learn to ski and snowboard. Chester Bowl has furthered its vision of an active and healthy duluth by purchasing and then renting alpine equipment at minimal cost to users. This past winter there were 1,059 sets of gear rentals for the season, and 1,801 season passes issued. The chalet at Chester Bowl park maintains an inexpensive food service, offers free lessons, organizes five ski and snowboard races, and leads freestyle friday and girls shred events in the terrain park. Chester Bowl is heavily supported by volunteerism; over 5,300 documented hours of volunteering were contributed this winter. At Chester Bowl, we believe anyone should to be able to participate in our programs regardless of their ability to pay; during the winter of 2023/2024, we awarded 21,195 in scholarships.

Chester Bowl summer camp: during the summer months Chester Bowl operates a day camp. With a daily capacity of 125 campers and 30 teen "cadet" volunteers, approximately 275 children ages 6-15 attended at least one of our 39 programming days in 2023 (10 weeks, mon-thurs). The day camp spends much of their time playing in the natural areas of the woods and Chester creek, while also playing traditional camp games and doing arts and crafts, and taking hiking field trips to locations such as the duluth public library, university of Minnesota duluth, and various duluth parks. We promise parents "to return your child tired, happy, and dirty" our summer day camp was priced at only 40 per day per child for full day (8:00-5:00) programming. As part of our commitment to equitable access to our program, our scholarship program awarded 32,520 in 2023 to families that are unable to afford the daily fees.