About

Central Park Skiers is a small independent brand focused on ski touring equipment.

The goal is simple: dependable gear for skiers who make their own tracks beyond the lifts and groomed slopes.

Today the focus is on backpacks. Each pack is designed, prototyped, and refined in Helsinki through ongoing testing and feedback from other skiers.

Central Park Skiers operates at a small scale. This allows ideas to evolve gradually, one improvement at a time, and keeps the connection between design, making, and real use intact.

Central Park Skiers began in New York. On snowy winter days I would take my son to Central Park, strap on skis, and loop around Sheep Meadow. In the middle of one of the world’s busiest cities we found our own rhythm on snow.

Skiing doesn’t depend on where you live. It depends on how much you care about it. The name Central Park Skiers comes from those days.

Today CPS is based in Helsinki, where I continue designing and building ski touring equipment while refining the designs through real use and conversation with other skiers.

Joonas Luotonen
Founder, Designer, Maker, Skier