SNES Vanilla Lake 1
- This article is about the race course in Super Mario Kart. For the first Vanilla Lake remix course in Mario Kart Tour, see RMX Vanilla Lake 1.
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Appears in | Super Mario Kart (1992) Mario Kart: Super Circuit (2001) Mario Kart Tour (2020) | ||
Cup(s) | Star Cup (Super Mario Kart) Extra Star Cup (Super Circuit) | ||
Tour(s) |
Ice Tour
Valentine's Tour Yoshi Tour (2020) Trick Tour (2020) Flower Tour Jungle Tour Cooking Tour Exploration Tour Super Mario Kart Tour Los Angeles Tour (2020) Mario vs. Luigi Tour New Year's 2021 Tour Cat Tour (2021) Snow Tour Bowser vs. DK Tour Trick Tour (2021) Frost Tour Toad vs. Toadette Tour New Year's 2022 Tour Wario vs. Waluigi Tour Sundae Tour | ||
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Vanilla Lake 1 is the third course of the Star Cup in the game Super Mario Kart. It was subsequently reused in Mario Kart: Super Circuit as the first track in the Extra Star Cup and in Mario Kart Tour starting with the Ice Tour, with the 2020 Trick Tour adding in the R/T variant. It is a short course taking place on a frozen lake. This track shares its music with Vanilla Lake 2.
Super Mario Kart
The slippery ground makes it harder to control the kart. At the edge of the track, the lake is snow-covered; driving here will slow the kart down. There are many obstacles along the way, such as pipes, and at some parts of the track, the ice is broken and exposes water. In addition, there are many ice block tiles blocking the way, which break if bumped into to.
Mario Kart: Super Circuit

Vanilla Lake 1 reappears in Mario Kart: Super Circuit and is the first track in the Extra Star Cup. It uses the background from Snow Land. The pipe hazards are removed from the track, and an extra Item Box is added on the left side of the small pool.
Mario Kart Tour
Vanilla Lake 1 reappears as a classic course for the first time in Mario Kart Tour, debuting in the Ice Tour. In this rendition, most of the snow blocks were removed, a Glide Ramp was added left of the now-first Item Box set, the walls within the course are thinner, and the wall to the right of the second set of Item Boxes (which replace most of the second set of snow blocks) has a break in it, as well as another Item Box. The course now has a starting banner with the classic Mario Kart logo. This course is a favorite of Lemmy, Blue Koopa (Freerunning), Penguin Luigi, Ice Mario, Dixie Kong, Daisy (Fairy), Penguin Mario, Tanooki Rosalina, and Bowser (Santa). It is also a favorite of Mario (Classic) and Wario (Hiker) if they are at level 3, and Yoshi (Reindeer) if he is at level 8.
Due to the Vanilla Lake setting returning in this game for the first time (besides its Mario Kart: Super Circuit reappearance), this course, along with SNES Donut Plains 1 and SNES Koopa Troopa Beach 2, is one of the few Super Mario Kart courses to retain their original music, rather than reusing a cover from a later Mario Kart game.
Excluding the R/T variant, Vanilla Lake 1 currently has the second longest gap between reappearances in tours, with the N, R, and T variants being absent from the New Year's 2022 Tour up until the Sundae Tour, only behind Bowser's Castle 1's N, R, and T variants from the 1st Anniversary Tour until the Wedding Tour.
For this course's tour appearances, see List of SNES Vanilla Lake 1 tour appearances in Mario Kart Tour.
Gallery
Super Mario Kart
Mario Kart Tour
Course icons
The course icon of the Ring Race challenge held on this course
The course icon of the Break Item Boxes challenge held on this course
The course icon of the Do Jump Boosts challenge held on this course
The course icon of the Goomba Takedown challenge held on this course
The course icon of the Smash Small Dry Bones challenge held on this course
The course icon of the Time Trial challenge held on this course
The course icon of the Steer Clear of Obstacles challenge held on this course
The course icon of the Big Reverse Race challenge held on this course
The course icon of the Combo Attack challenge held on this course
Screenshots
Toad (Pit Crew) drifting in the Blue Seven
Penguin Luigi in the Ice-blue Poltergust
Baby Daisy gliding in the Black B Dasher with the Gold Swooper on the Reverse variant
Mario (SNES) and Donkey Kong Jr. (SNES) driving on the Reverse variant
Penguin Mario gliding in the Penguin Slider with the Penguin Wingtip on the Reverse variant
Cat Rosalina and Cat Toad gliding on the course
Names in other languages
Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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Chinese | 香草湖1[?] Xiāngcǎo Hú 1 |
Vanilla Lake 1 | |
French | Lac Vanille 1[?] | Vanilla Lake 1 | |
German | Vanille-See 1[?] | Vanilla Lake 1 | |
Italian | Lago Vaniglia 1[?] | Vanilla Lake 1 | |
Portuguese | Lago Baunilha 1[?] | Vanilla Lake 1 | |
Spanish | Lago Vainilla 1[?] | Vanilla Lake 1 |