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Mountain Ski Areas

Killington, VT
3
MAP K5 • 4763 Killington Rd
• 802 422 6200 • Ski: mid-Nov–mid-
Apr • Adm • www.killington.com
Killington Resort stretches across
six mountain areas in central
Vermont, providing 155 ski trails.
As New England’s largest ski resort,
it also features 22 lifts, including
two express gondolas and five
express chairs, that give access to
Skier on the slopes, Sunday River the highest lift-served ski terrain in
the state of Vermont. Snowboarders’
Sunday River, Newry,
1 needs are also catered for with The
ME
Stash and Dream Maker terrain
MAP M3 • 15 South Ridge Rd • 207 parks as well as the 500-ft (152-m)
824 3000 • Ski: mid-Nov–mid-Apr Superpipe with 22-ft (6.7-m) walls.
• Adm • www.sundayriver.com
Mount Mansfield, Stowe,
The most accessible of Maine’s 4
high-mountain skiing, Sunday River VT
splashes across eight interconnected MAP K3 • 5781 Mountain Rd • 802
peaks, with 135 diverse trails served 253 3000 • Ski: mid-Nov–mid-Apr
by 15 lifts (including five high-speed • Adm • www.stowe.com
quads). Lights extend evening skiing As the tallest of the attractive Green
on most weekends and holidays. Mountains, Mansfield challenges
Snowmaking on 95 percent of terrain hikers every summer and fall. Come
guarantees a long season. Evenings winter, Stowe Mountain Resort takes
are enlived by the popular Shipyard over the slopes with 116 trails and
Brew Haus microbrewery. During the more mile-long lifts than any other
summer it’s a popular golf resort. resort in the East. With average
annual snowfall of 333 inches
Bretton Woods, NH
2 (8.46m), Stowe has a long season
of deep snow. Summer golf resort.
MAP M3 • 99 Ski Area Rd
• 603 378 3320 • Ski: mid-Nov–Apr
Cannon Mountain,
• Adm • www.brettonwoods.com 5
This is the largest ski area in New Franconia, NH
Hampshire boasting 464 acres (188 MAP L3 • 9 Franconia Notch State
ha) of skiing and snowboarding on Park • 603 823 8800 • Ski: Nov–mid-
62 trails, 35 glades, and three terrain Apr • Adm • www.cannonmt.com
parks. The ski area is closely allied One of the oldest ski areas in the
with Omni Mount Washington Resort, US, Cannon has a refreshingly non-
so ski-stay packages give access commercial feel about it, not to
to one of the last grand hotels of mention the spectacular White
the White Mountains. Mountains vistas from its 98 trails.
A husky sledge ride, Bretton Woods

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