Best Ski Resorts

[dowab]

America's Best has best east and west skiing plus several different categories:

http://www.americasbestonline.net/skiresorts.html

Here's the Top Ten Eastern Ski Resorts:
Stowe, Vermont
Lake Placid, New York
Smugglers' Notch, Vermont
Bretton Woods, New Hampshire
Burke Mountain, Vermont
Killington, Vermont
Jackson, New Hampshire
Jay Peak, Vermont
Sugarloaf, Maine
Okemo, Vermont

 

[RISkier]

I've expressed this before but IMO, trying to rank ski-resorts on a single "best of" list seems futile. There are so many dimensions that may have very different values depending on who you are. Great grooming might be really important to one skier but viewed as a negative by another. Bumps might be the crucial characteristic for one skier while another wants glades. Off mountain activities are important for some, not for others.

 

[smootharc]

And here's to hoping every skier in the East only goes...

....to the list.

More powder for me, Piggyboy, at me favorite non-listed places.

Yeehaw...

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

I've expressed this before but IMO, trying to rank ski-resorts on a single "best of" list seems futile. There are so many dimensions that may have very different values depending on who you are. Great grooming might be really important to one skier but viewed as a negative by another. Bumps might be the crucial characteristic for one skier while another wants glades. Off mountain activities are important for some, not for others.

Yeah ok, but what's the big deal? It's like rating women, its just for fun.

However, this poll almost got it right. :wink:

This thread gets done alot, but its always interesting.

 

[WWF-VT]

Ski Magazine, Skiing and other publications publish these ranking lists and at least provide the criteria and reasons for the rankings. Not too sure where this site comes up with their rankings. At least I now know where to find listings for Americas Top 10 College Mascots, Treehouses, Hotdogs, Merry-Go-Rounds and Butterfly Centers....

 

[ctenidae]

Someone should compile all the lists and find the top 10 based on appearances in top 10 lists. Then that list could be added in to generate a new list, and over and over again. Before long, you'd generate a vortex in the space-tme continuum that could, if done properly, get you to the fabled triple fall line trail.

 

[mergs]

ugh.... I wish they'd stop putting Stowe on the list...

i agree with one of the other posters here... a list of best resorts is silly. it should be:

best food
best nightlife
best beginner terrain/learning
best int
best adv
best off piste
best trees

etc... then we'd be getting somewhere. with specific rankings that would be something meaty to sink your teeth into. i know of some sites that do that for european resorts and its darn helpful.

 

[riverc0il]

Jackson, New Hampshire and Lake Placid, New York are not ski areas :roll: at least lake placid is synonimous with whiteface. jackson has a ski area (black) and is near several, but isn't exactly a resort community or anything.

that said, surprised to see burke, VT on a best ski resorts list. i have never thought of burke as being a "ski resort" but it definitely deserves it's props for being a great place to ski and stay for everyone.

 

[ski_resort_observer]

This list and website is even more lame than the others. Among the many errors, under Best Ski Towns, for example, there is no such town as Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

 

[Bosefius]

I hear that Jackson and Lake Placid ski resorts both have some triple fall lines. I wonder if either will open tomorrow.

 

[riverc0il]

triple fall lines are usually only available during very early season so they probably will be open this weekend. you can tell a trail has a triple fall line when three people fall directly in front of you.

 

[RISkier]

You can find a detailed explanation of triple fall lines in Stephen Hawking's book entitled "A Brief History of Time."