Homes For Sale in Calabogie Peaks Village

About Calabogie Peaks Village

Calabogie Peaks Village is a ski community in Greater Madawaska, built around Calabogie Peaks Resort. Chalets, condos and detached homes cluster near the slopes.

Ski-country inventory peaks in the fall as sellers list ahead of the season. Every listing below sits inside the community boundary shown on the map.

The homes of Calabogie

Calabogie Peaks Village is the residential side of Dicksons Mountain: a four-season playground of chalets, cottages and building lots around the resort, plus the broader Calabogie-area market of lakefront cottages on Calabogie Lake and Black Donald Lake. The village product is modest and recreational — the listings speak of dream chalets and year-round homes steps from the resort — while the surrounding lakes add the waterfront tier. There is no luxury condo strip; this is Ottawa Valley cottage country with a ski hill.

Asking prices seen in autumn 2026: building lots in Peaks Village — 0.51 and 0.57 acres, steps from the resort — asked $154,900 each, the entry ticket to building your own chalet. A nearly three-acre Calabogie home at 515 Graphite Bay Road asked $799,900. On the waterfront tier, a four-season home on just under three acres of Black Donald Lake asked $1,199,000. The pattern is clear: land and lakefront set the price, and the village lots are the accessible on-ramp.

Cottage-country diligence: verify year-round road access and winter maintenance for ski-season use, check heating and insulation on older cottages, and confirm water and septic. The village lots are straightforward building opportunities — confirm servicing, zoning and any resort-area architectural controls before buying to build. Older cottages around the lake should be checked for winterization before assuming ski-season use — insulation, heating and water systems built for July don't always stretch to January. On the waterfront, confirm shoreline road allowances and septic compliance; the Madawaska Highlands' granite makes both interesting. For village lots, the resort's architectural controls protect values but constrain design — read them before falling in love with a plan.

The resort and the mountain

Calabogie Peaks sits on Dicksons Mountain in Greater Madawaska, about 80 kilometres west of Ottawa, and its claim is the biggest in Ontario public skiing: the highest vertical drop of any public hill in the province at about 232 metres (760 feet), across 24 runs served by two Doppelmayr quad chairlifts and a carpet lift, with 95% snowmaking, four terrain parks and — a point of pride — the longest beginner trail in Ontario. Founded in 1969, it is also on the Indy Pass, which has raised its profile with travelling skiers.

The resort is more than the hill: the Dickson Manor hotel with spa, indoor pool and dining, a beachfront on Calabogie Lake in summer, golf and mountain biking. It is the Ottawa Valley's four-season base — the hill Ottawa skis, an hour from the capital. The resort's four-season infrastructure — beachfront on Calabogie Lake, golf nearby, the hotel's spa and dining — makes it a genuine destination rather than just a ski hill. That breadth is what supports the village's residential market: owners aren't buying a ski condo, they're buying into a year-round resort community. The Indy Pass affiliation also brings visiting skiers from across the network, deepening the rental pool.

Four-season reality

Summer at Calabogie is lake season: Calabogie Lake's beachfront, boating and fishing, the resort's golf and mountain biking, and the Madawaska highlands' hiking. The village lots and cottages get as much summer use as winter — arguably more — which smooths the ownership case across the year. The Madawaska Highlands' rugged beauty peaks twice — in autumn colour and in deep winter — with a quiet, wild character distinct from the southern Ontario resort corridors. Spring is the Ottawa Valley's mud season; locals embrace it. Summer's lake life is the social centre: the beach, the boats, the small-town rhythm of the village.

Winter is genuine Ottawa Valley winter: cold, snowy, and the reason the hill's snowmaking and elevation matter. The resort's 95% snowmaking coverage and the valley's natural snow deliver one of Ontario's more reliable seasons. Snow tires are essential, and any cottage used in ski season needs verified four-season systems — many area cottages were built for summer. The Highlands deliver serious winter — cold snaps, heavy snow, and the kind of cold that tests heating systems. Verify the heating capacity and backup for any village property; the resort's snowmaking ensures the hill, but your condo's furnace is your own affair. Winter tires are non-negotiable on the Highlands roads.

Location and getting there

Calabogie Peaks is about an hour's drive west of Ottawa via Highway 417 — this is Ottawa's ski hill the way Blue Mountain is Toronto's. Renfrew, with full services, is about 30 minutes east; the village of Calabogie itself has the essentials. From Ottawa, the drive is Highway 417 west to Renfrew, then into the Highlands — about an hour, making Calabogie the capital's ski hill the way Blue Mountain is Toronto's. The village itself has the essentials — general store, dining, the resort's amenities — with Renfrew and Arnprior covering the full shop. This is Ottawa's cottage country as much as its ski country.

From Toronto it is a long drive — this market serves Ottawa, the Valley and western Quebec far more than the GTA. Buyers should understand whose market they are entering: Ottawa Valley cottage country, priced in Ottawa Valley terms, which is part of the value. Toronto buyers should understand the geography honestly: four-plus hours each way makes this a fly-or-long-weekend proposition, not a regular drive. The market knows it — values reflect Ottawa demand, not GTA demand — and out-of-town buyers compete against locals who know the Highlands intimately.

Calabogie Peaks Village market snapshot

No sold-price dataset for the village crossed my desk this session; read autumn 2026 asking prices: village building lots at $154,900, Calabogie-area homes from around $799,900, and waterfront cottages from $1.199M. The lots are the story — an accessible entry to ski-country ownership that barely exists at the southern Ontario hills. The village market splits three ways: building lots for the build-your-own buyer, resort condos for the lock-and-leave skier, and waterfront for the lake-first buyer who skis second. Each tier has its own comparables and its own seasonality; the mistake is pricing one against the others.

Comparables should come from Greater Madawaska and the Calabogie area, not from Ottawa suburbs or Muskoka. Price the lot's resort proximity and servicing; on the waterfront tier, price the lake, the frontage and the four-season capability. The Indy Pass effect on visitation is worth watching — destination skiers are discovering the hill. Ottawa's market cycles drive this market more than Toronto's — watch the capital's employment and housing trends for the leading indicator. Listings cluster in late summer as owners position for ski season; waterfront moves on the cottage calendar. A local Highlands agent is essential — the micro-markets within the village are distinct.

Frequently Asked Questions