Discovery News has put together a list of what they believe to be the 7 Best Small Ski Resorts in the U.S. Do you agree?
7 Best Small Ski Resorts in the U.S.
You can read more about why each resort was chosen here - Discovery News.
- Wolf Creek, Colorado
- Solitude, Utah
- Moonlight Basin, Montana
- Jay Peak, Vermont
- Attitash, New Hampshire
- Mount Bachelor, Oregon
- Mountain Creek, New Jersey
Mountain Creek? Is this a joke?
I’m not sure what exactly the criteria of small ski resorts are, but that does not fit with the others.
Hey! Yeah! They forget our North Korean ski resort too! It is small and totally awesome! Bring your mom!
Cannon Mountain NH
No love for Mt. Rose? Author must’ve crapped himself at the top of the chutes, and still holds a grudge…
How is Mount Bachelor small?
Yeah I’m not so sure I’d call Mt.Bachelor “small”.
hahaha mtn creek
take bachelor off, its not a small ski area in any sense. Then take off attitash and mountain creek. Because they really aren’t that great. Now, with the 3 new spots add Baker, Bridger and Silver, ID.
Bachelor is huge (3,700 acres), and putting a New Jersey mtn on there before Mad River Glen, Cannon, and dozens of others leads me to believe the author is a complete idiot who has never ventured outside of Manhattan.
Wolf creek looks nice
Quick vert and super flat most of the hill. They get almost too much snow for the pitch that they have…
Isn’t Bachelor like 3500 acres? Is that small?
Moonlight isn’t small either.
Mt bachelor isn’t a small ski resort
Eagle Crest, Juneau Alaska
Define Small !
Your cok
i would say baker and stevens pass, but it actually sucks balls in the PNW, so scratch dat
At least it snows every unread in he PNW. Unlike many other places. Like Colorado. And the northeast.
I see you dont get get what johnny was goin for. Thats ok, its not for everyone.
thank you my good man, CB, thank you.
Jay Peak gets upwards of 400″ per year, so yeah, Northeast gets snow…Hippo
taos ski valley nm
Bridger bowl should be on there moonlight sucks
the creek has no terrain and short season!
I wonder who Mountain Creek paid to get on this list!!!!! Ridiculous selection!!!!!
Monarch Mountain, Colorado is sweet too. Don’t tell anyone…
I fully agree with this list, Wolf Creek takes the cake, however, I would add Silverton Mountain, CO. Also Mount Bachelor is rather large, I would replace it with Stevens Pass, WA or Hoodoo Mountain, OR
hoodoo is lame.
hoodoo is fun. your lame because you do not know how to have fun
Where is Grand Targhee and Red Mountain? They are staples to these types of articles
i was going to say red, whitewater but its in the USA.
Dont go to Grand Targhee!! No snow, long lines. Stay at Jackson!!
I think you have it mixed up, Grant Targhee gets more snow than Jackson, reports less so idiots who ski at Jackson will not come over the pass. Plus, you wont break your wallet skiing at Targhee
moonlight over bridger? i mean moonlight rocks but come on…
Nobody go to solitude it sucks and we don’t want you
Ya go to the bird and clog that canyon instead!
with 2 massive hotels, a waterpark, and icerink i wouldnt call jay small. plus they have a parking garage.
a better EC small ski area would be MRG, saddleback or cannon
Jay Peak over Mad River Glen?? Wolf Creek over Pajarito Mountain? If they were reviewing beer, would Coors rate as a microbrew?
Homewood, CA
Shh.
bachelor sucks shit. They actually close down for storms and wait a few days until the snow gets heavy, real great place to go for powder. Substitute in sugar bowl.
not to mention Bachelor is flat except for the summit lift which is open like once a month
they have to close those high lifts for wind. if it is dumping snow and windy, it is a saftey hazard to stay open. also rhime can really mess up the grips on detachable lifts, so they have to shut down to do knock rhime off, or you would get really hurt just riding the lift.
Arizona Snowbowl.
Alpental, WA.
Mountain creek is straight booty.. I live 15 minutes from there and cant bring myself to sit in line for 2 hours for two minutes down the slope.freakin bennies destroyed the 200 vertical feet that is creek
I usually hit wolfie preseason when taos hasent opened yet for the first big storm of the year. its not much but it is fun to ski with no ropes at a ski resort that knows what it means to open and ski at your own risk…
Sugar Bowl?
Sugar Bowl, CA
Mt. Bachelor is small? Good mountain, yes. But small…..
Mt. Brighton Michigan!
fuckin’ idiot
You got a 500ft vert on a gaahhbage pile!
Sugar Bowl….because of ASI runs and side country………kirkwood…….Mt. Baker for sure!
snow trails ski resort mansfield ohio
wtf…..u high dood? or just lookin for a response like mine? I live in Cleveland . I ski in ohio ONLY because I have young daughters. ONLY. Squaw is where my heart belongs. And I WILL retire there one day. get back to yer bong kiddo
Eaglecrest, AK!! duh..
this guy means small as in “less known”, they carry different meanings…
I have fun wherever I shred, you just have to make it happen! True thugs know…
Attitash is a joke and believe me…the place sucks! I vote for Sugar Bowl
Montana Snowbowl!
mountain creek nj , that’s good, i think i will book my vacation there
that is some seriously inept journalism
Discovery News is not newsworthy here. Anything over 500 acres is not small, or if your near a major community that floods your lift lines on weekends that doesn’t count for a “Small” experience either. A little peer review would have saved this article from being completey off base and a forgetable waste of time.
Define small
June Mountain, CA?
None of those are small resorts. Solitude is comparable to Snowbird or Alta. Maybe not as many lifts, but terrain wise. I definitely do not understand what they are using to define a “small” resort. All of those listed are pretty well known. How disappointing!
I grew up by Snowsnake and it it is my favorite small resort.
http://www.snowsnake.net/
Attitash ??? You shittin me? Must like skiin on crappy snow !
i love how everyone takes these marketing lists personally. All thats really being said here is that these resorts ‘took the best care of’ discovery news…
From a Canadian that lives 45 minutes from Baker, makes me kinda glad that Baker does not make the list. Cuz there ain’t nothing to see there…….Bra
Jay Peak- never been, dying to go. I would not call it small.
Mtn Creek- I wouldn’t ski in New Jersey even if it snowed 10 feet.
MRG- never been, dying to go. From what I know of it, this is def considered small. Terrain is supposed to be top notch.
As everyone has mentioned those are all large. I would go with:
East Coast: Magic, Plattekill, Snowbowl, MRG.
West: Snow King, Bridger Bowl.
West Coast: Don’t really know.
Bunch of shit talkers on here
Soldier Mountain and Brundage, ID should be there. Monarch, too.
You had me until “Mountain Creek”
As for: “this guy means small as in “less known”, they carry different meanings…”
Ummm… You can’t call any ski area in the tri-state area “less known” when there are 19 million people around. They’re not exactly hiding the place.
Mountain Creek? Hilarious! The place is tiny, icy, unsafe and has been constantly going downhill the past 5 years. The place is ridden with accidents, chairlift failures, late openings; it’s really a recipe for disaster – just plain ole unsafe! Check the mountain creek facebook page later today and they will surely be touting “one of the best small resorts in the country”.
sugar bowl no doubt
Where is saddleback and MRG what is this… clearly not written by an east coast skier.
saddlewhere? is that in canada?
ski katahdin!!!!
not tellin.
I can seriously say I love riding the Open Gondola at mountain creek….From May-October
In winter its an absolute $hitshow with overcrowded 20 degree slopes and no woods. Oh but the park there is awesome – if you like features that aren’t attended to, 1,000,000 snowboarders with their gopros casing every feature because they go beneath a reasonable run in, cut you off in line, fall down and then land on top of eachother. Makes for an awesome day in the park.
If Solitudes on here as a small resort Baker should absolutely be added
I had to web search Mountain Creek, never heard of it. I didn’t know you could ski that close to the big east coast cities. Still looks lame.
spoiled brat? uuuuh yeah
Pebble Creek Idaho!
Grand Tharghee , Wyoming
Kirkwood, CA; Crystal Mountain, WA; Silverton, CO
Pebble is the shit.
No love for ak…who cares, our tiny mountain rocks
baker and bridger