This represents the most popular Ski Resorts and Ski Areas in North America. Use this list to plan your next vacation or getaway trip. Select a state and/or an activity from the pull-down lists below to find even more top getaway ideas.
1.Mount Rose - Ski Tahoe Ski Vacation
Mt. Rose was discovered in the early 1930s when members of the Reno Ski Club, including local historian Bill Berry and Squaw Valley ...
Reno, NV - Ski & Snowboard California's Sierra Nevada
2.Heavenly Ski Resort Ski Vacation
Originally known as Bijou Ski Run, Chris Kuraisa purchased the two-rope tow area for $1,950 and the surrounding property for $3,750 ...
South Lake Tahoe, CA - Ski & Snowboard California's Sierra Nevada
3.Snowshoe - Silver Creek Resort Ski Vacation
Decades after the last logging outfits left behind the highlands of Pocahontas County’s Cheat Mountain, Snowshoe was conceived when ...
Snowshoe, WV - Ski & Snowboard America: Mid-Atlantic
4.Fairmount Hot Springs Resort Ski Vacation
Those who visit Fairmont Hot Springs tend to be less concerned with attacking the slopes than with stripping away the layers of stress ...
Fairmount Hot Springs, BC - Ski & Snowboard America: Pacific Northwest & British Columbia
5.Bogus Basin Ski Resort Ski Vacation
With a name like Bogus Basin, skiers unfamiliar to the resort might expect the snowriding to be…well…bogus. Not so. Bogus is Idaho’s ...
Boise, ID - Ski & Snowboard America: Pacific Northwest & British Columbia
6.Massanutten Resort Ski Vacation
Located 2,880 feet high on the windy tip of Massanutten Mountain, Massanutten is a popular, well-run ski area serving guests from ...
Harrisonburg, VA - Ski & Snowboard America: Mid-Atlantic
7.Beech Mountain Ski Vacation
North Carolina’s biggest alpine resort sits 5,505 feet above sea level on a windy knob of the Blue Ridge Mountains in western North ...
Beech Mountain, NC - Ski & Snowboard America: Mid-Atlantic
8.Dodge Ridge Wintersports Area Ski Vacation
Dodge Ridge sits on the edge of the million-acre Stanislaus National Forest, one of the oldest national forests in the country, home ...
Pinecrest, CA - Ski & Snowboard California's Sierra Nevada
9.Sierra Summit Mountain Resort Ski Vacation
Sierra Summit Mountain Resort is located in the heart of the Sierra National Forest, part of the longest block of wild lands in the ...
Lakeshore, CA - Ski & Snowboard California's Sierra Nevada
10.Alpine Meadows Ski Resort Ski Vacation
Alpine Meadows rests on the southeast edge of the 1.2 million-acre Tahoe National Forest. Elevations climb from around 1,500 feet ...
Tahoe City, CA - Ski & Snowboard California's Sierra Nevada
11.Forbidden Plateau Ski Vacation
Hundreds of years ago, two feuding tribes went up to the plateau to work out their differences, peacefully everyone thought. No one ...
Courtenay, BC - Ski & Snowboard America: Pacific Northwest & British Columbia
12.Alta Ski Area Ski Vacation
Alta is an old-fashioned, unpretentious ski area that has resisted change and is proud of it. Unlike almost every other ski destination ...
Alta, UT - Fodor's Skiing USA
13.Wisp Ski Resort Ski Vacation
The Allegheny Mountain microclimate in Maryland’s western panhandle contrasts with the state’s otherwise temperate conditions. Downhill ...
McHenry, MD - Ski & Snowboard America: Mid-Atlantic
14.Mount Pinos Nordic Skiing Ski Vacation
Mt. Pinos Nordic Skiing is located in the Los Padres National Forest, a 220-mile stretch of coastal mountains between Carmel Valley ...
Frazier Park, CA - Ski & Snowboard California's Sierra Nevada
15.Big Bear Mountain Resort Ski Vacation
Located 90 miles due east of Los Angeles in the San Bernardino National Forest, Big Bear Mountain resort offers some of the closest ...
Big Bear Lake, CA - Ski & Snowboard California's Sierra Nevada
16.Big Boulder - Jack Frost Ski Vacation
With modest plateaus and sporadic snowfall, Pennsylvania’s Pocono region hardly seemed the right place to follow on the heels of the ...
Blakeslee, PA - Ski & Snowboard America: Mid-Atlantic
17.Badger Pass Ski Resort Ski Vacation
When the Yosemite Park and Curry Company established the Yosemite Winter Club in 1928, the immediate result was the creation of a ...
Mariposa, CA - Ski & Snowboard California's Sierra Nevada
18.Whiteface Mountain Ski Center Ski Vacation
Lake Placid, no longer a playground of the rich and storied, is now an egalitarian winter-sports center with a plethora of medium-price ...
Wilmington, NY - Fodor's Skiing USA
19.Appalachian Ski Mountain Ski Vacation
Around the same time that Cataloochee Ski Area opened to mark the advent of commercial alpine skiing in North Carolina, Blowing Rock ...
Blowing Rock, NC - Ski & Snowboard America: Mid-Atlantic
20.Cedar Pass Snow Park Ski Vacation
Located in the remote northeast kingdom of California is the two million-acre Modoc National Forest. Originally home to the Modoc, ...
Alturas, CA - Ski & Snowboard California's Sierra Nevada