SAR South
Public Avalanche Beacon Park
Open for the 2025/2026 winter season
WHERE: This FREE Avalanche Beacon Training Park is located 100 feet up from Old Monarch Pass Road parking lot (FS 237). It is a quick ski, split, snowshoe, or xc up the road on the right. Using your backcountry snow flotation gives a more authentic experience... and avoids post holing.
WHAT: The Beacon Training Park has 7-8 buried transceiver boxes that simulate buried beacons. A yellow control box turns each transceiver on allowing for single burial or more advanced multi-burial practice. This beacon skills park is for searching, pinpointing, and probing. You will need to practice shoveling outside of the park.
BRING: snow flotation, beacon, probe, backcountry partners.
No shovel use in park
We highly recommend taking an Avalanche Training Course from a professional organization and return to the practice park frequently to keep your skills sharp.
The Beacon Park was made possible through donations from:
Monarch Ski Area (their old beacon park)
Western Recreation Industries (signs)
Forest Service
SAR South members
Your public donations
