Perisher Blue is Australia’s largest skiing resort. It is located in the Australian Snowy Mountains in the southeastern corner of New South Wales, in the Snowy River Shire, about 600 kilometres southwest of Sydney.

The resort is an amalgamation of the Perisher, Smiggin Holes, Blue Cow and Guthega skifields and many lifts. The base elevation is about 1,640 metres AHD and the summit elevation at the top of Mount Perisher is 2,054 metres. The resort is accessible by road and by the Skitube, Australia’s only underground rack-railway. The main skiing period is in July and August, with the official season running from the second weekend in June to the first weekend of October.