Mount Snow Resort, West Dover, VT

Visitors to Mount Snow Resort can enjoy skiing and snowboarding on one of the four mountains. Guests can also snow tube if they wish as well as take lessons for skiing and snowboarding. There is lodging right at the slope so guests can be close to the action. Visitors to the area can enjoy four seasons at Mount Snow Resort. There is an eighteen hole golf course, mountain biking, music events and a conference center for wedding receptions or meetings. The mountain can make its own snow in preparation for opening day. Around the Thanksgiving holiday the resort hosts a torchlight parade and fireworks display.

There are eighty trails on the mountain with a vertical drop of 1700 feet. There are nineteen lifts to whisk skiers to their destination. Fourteen per cent of the runs are green circles for novice skiers, seventy three per cent are blue squares for intermediate skiers and thirteen per cent are black diamonds for advanced or expert skiers.

Once the ski resort opens, the hours midweek are from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm and 8:00 am to 4:00 pm weekends and holidays. The snowmaking coverage at Mount Snow Resort is eighty per cent coverage. They have twelve terrain parks with one mini pipe and one super pipe. The annual snowfall is approximately one hundred and fifty inches.

The lifts can move more than thirty thousand people per hour. There is a total of twenty lifts with three high speed quad chairs. They also have one fixed quad, seven triple chairs, four double chairs, one rope tow and four magic carpets. Mount Snow Resort is in Green Mountain National Forest and is twenty nine miles from I-91.

A tubing park is located at the Mixing Bowl which is just below the Grand Summit Hotel. This is where the magic carpet lifts are located and on certain evenings guests can use this area at night. Cross country skiers can use several different areas including Timber Creek which is on Route 100. Guided snowmobile tours are available through the Green Mountain National Forest by tour operators.

Mount Snow has a two hundred room hotel that they operate. They also have a one hundred room lodge. The larger hotel is the Mount Snow Grand Summit Resort Hotel and Conference Center, the smaller is called Snow Lake Lodge. Besides these two places there are condos, inns, ski lodges and motels in the area.

Services at the Mount Snow Grand Resort Hotel include a ski equipment rental and repair shop at the Clock tower Building. They also have guest services, child care, a Medical Center and First Aid building. Mount Snow Ski and Snowboard school is open to all ages and there are ski shops, food establishments and bars.

People wishing to improve their skills in competitive skiing can attend the weekend sessions of Competition Development. They can be coached in alpine, freestyle and snowboarding techniques. There is also a boarding school for students in grades nine through twelve that gives students one on one intensive training.