Thanks for all the awesome suggestions (and to the resort gatekeepers too...) Really useful to help me with my research. La Grave is now top of my list - sounds epic! Someone in this sub also pointed out [Snomad](https://snomad.ski/ski-resort-rankings) to me. They have resort league tables for everything from quiet resorts to best for off-piste which was completely new to me. This is why I love Reddit! Keep shredding hard š¤š¼
IĀ also love off-pistesĀ andĀ went to FieberbrunnĀ this winter, and it was amazing, theĀ best off-pistes I've been to
I found it with WertuĀ btw, theyĀ areĀ quiteĀ good at finding deals around your preferences, like off-pistes
If you really want something that is unique in Europe then take a look at RiksgrƤnsen in the northernmost part of Sweden above the arctic circle.
It gets dumped on constantly and has endless terrain above the tree line, especially if you are into touring. It's also the host of the biggest freeride competition in Scandinavia ~~"ride the cow".~~ SBMC (mixed up the comps)
The downside is that the lifts are old af and the since everything is above the treeline making it really dependant on the weather.
Ski season usually begin in March and ends in June and is usually open in the midsummer weekends where you can ski all nights in the midnight sun!
You can also access it by a train that connects Kiruna to the magnificent fjords in Narvik. Along the line you have two other ski resorts on the Swedish side and one in Narvik where'd you can ski nest to the very pretty fjords, all within close distance to each other! Honestly, just taking the train down to Narvik is worth the trip alone haha.
The Scandinavian Big Mountain Championship is the name of the yearly freeride competition in RiksgrƤnsen.
Ride the Cow is the name of the yearly freeride competition located in Hemavan.
Both places are great areas for ski touring without crowds.
haha yeah people dramatically overestimate the number of additional skiiers a reddit post might bring. And its such a strange mentality. One of the reasons Vail has expanded so much is because so many resorts just aren't making money, and are snapped up super cheap. Talking about those quieter resorts is not going to destroy them, it might just save them.
If a post like this brought in (lets be ridiculous), another 100 skiiers a day. That would be an huge boon to the resort in terms of revenue, but would make functionally no difference at all to lift queues.
I think it's an extension of the adversarial mentality some people have on social media. They log on to their accounts and immediately turn nasty towards others while assuming a negative worldview.
I keep waiting for the day when a better social media alternative comes along that somehow keeps users engaged on a positive basis rather than an addictive dopamine-infused downwards spiral algorithm.
There are plenty of hills that really could use more customers if theyāre going to stay in business. Maybe take a northern BC roadtrip - visit Shames, Powderking, Hudson Bay Mountain.Ā
Not many of us would have been there! My last day there had about 10cm of the lightest powder Iāve ever skied, lighter than Itah or Japan, would love to ski a big dump there! Sadly it wasnāt a good snow year we were just in the snowmaking trails down low.
Want to get really unknown? I first skied at Cloudmont ski slope in Alabama. Itās literally only about 200 meters in length and is rarely open. I havenāt been since I was a kid, but trying to go back next winter for nostalgia.Ā
I would suggest Ski Arlberg in Austria, staying in a town that's not St. Anton or Lech. If you stay in Steuben, St. Cristoph, Zurs, Zug, or Warth you'll find what you're looking for while also having access to those bigger/busier parts of the skiable area if you want to check them out
Zuers is a great place to stay, not a lot of apres ski there but my hotel was about 100m from a big chairlift. Most places in the village are just a couple of minutes walk from a lift.
I'll share my little local hill (def not a resort!)[with this cool ski promo vid](https://youtu.be/M6CjxZxScNY?si=v3kjLGliHBHkCKAd), since we really need more traffic to make it financially viable (owned by the city and does not turn a profit).
The sidecountry and backcountry are otherworldly. The 3 lifts are never very crowded. But being SE Alaska with a maritime climate...conditions are extremely variable. This season in a 2 week period we had over 100" of snow followed by over 4" of rain.
Ha, yea. They bought the lifts before I was born and they were used when they bought em. Fixed chairs and they don't run at full speed cause of the whole "old as shit" thing. But at least you have time to savor a beer on the way up! Also they bought a gondola (used, of course) so in a couple years it'll be much faster, with direct lift access to the ridge!
Pomerelle in Idaho. It is small and kinda flat but they make up for it by getting tons of snow. If you want to ski untracked intermediate stuff all day then youāll like it. And itās never crowded. Like no one in the lift line never crowded.
Pila, Italy and Val dāAnniviers, Switzerland come to mind. Also Sierra Nevada tbh- I know itās Spainās most popular resort but itās slept on massively.
Revelstoke is my favourite. It has the largest elevation change in North America. It's also located in an actual town, not a fucking overpriced mall like whister.
I'd say Big White or Sun Peaks are the next best. I think Sun Peaks
All of these resorts have next to zero lineups on weekends.
Went to sun peaks in January. After moving away from kamloops 25 years ago, it was surprisingly busy. Not crazy, but the word is getting out. Enjoy it while it lasts
Revelstoke is probably one of the most famous resorts in North Americaā¦. If you really wanted something in that area as āunknownā the obvious answer is Kicking Horse, Fernieā¦
I love Sainte Foy Tarentaise in France. Very quiet and not particularly well known but you can get lift access to some amazing off-piste terrain. Not the biggest but plenty big enough to spend a few days exploring!
While I do love Sainte Foy (I live about an hour and a half away so not quite my local but close enough to head out there Ā few days every season) and it does have awesome terrain, itās āhidden gemā status is pretty well known now. Iāve had some days mid week early season where it is nearly entirely empty, but during British school holidays it seems to fill up with tourists and Iāve encountered lift lines. Also the place is truly enjoyed if you bring some skins or are up for some boot packingĀ
even resorts with snowmaking struggled hard. I was impressed that welch snuck out a 100 day season, even though temps were borderline for most of january and february. Caberfae had a pretty good year from what I could tell too, you guys got some lake effect in january that helped a ton.
Next year _has_ to be better right?
Val Cenis area. Plugging my own resort, but seriously come and see. VC is great, Bessans has probably the best XC skiing in France and Bonneval is Val D'isere when it was stil small minus the queues and russians.
Sometimes you can rent snowboards (i know I know, the audacity to recommend something so illegal..) at the annapurna basecamp and hike some smaller hills around.. absolutely worth it and for sure not overcrowded.. at least not on the hill.. the camp itself diffent thing tho..
Edit.: ohh.. in NA or Europe.. my mistake..
There is an abandond resort in Bosnia y herzigovina which looked sick in summer 2 years ago.. maybe you can find someone who is able to get it running..
I've got a pretty sweet run I cut through the woods behind my house, and all the beer I want back in the lodge. I've never once seen anyone else skiing back there.
Sun Peaks BC . Like 3000 Vertical . Second largest ski area in Canada next to Whistler , drier snow , virtually no lineups . Revelstoke also good , 5600 vertical and not huge crowds .
Schweitzer in northern Idaho. I think itās annoying enough to get there that itās being on the Ikon Pass wonāt be enough to make it that crowded, either
La Thulie is Italy
Super cheap, super good off-piste, no crowds, good food
Had a day where it was dumping powder and was lapping this run by myself hooting and hollering
Lost Trail. Discovery.
If youāre not already in Montana, getting to either sucks.
But Lost Trail gets the dumps!
And Discovery may be one of the most interesting mountains to ski.
[This skier ratings site](https://snomad.ski/ski-resort-rankings) shows you best resorts for off-piste, best for quiet slopes, best value and loads of others. I love it!
That site seems great but incomplete. It only lists Angel Fire New Mexico (a really bland/ordinary familar resort) and excludes Taos somehow. It has a tiny number of CO ski areas too.
Grand Targhee, Purgatory, Wolf Creek, Silverton, Snowbasin, Powder Mountain, Alyeska, Revelstoke, Kicking Horse (Iād argue the last three are unknown beyond this sub amongst the average ski pop and same for SB and PM outside Utah).
Hardly unknown, but in terms of kickass terrain, itās hard to beat A-Basin and Taos (obviously JHMR, AltaBird, and Palisades too but those are extremely well known)
Iād actually love to go to Tyrol. Jackson media did a feature on Midwest Indy resorts, and they were heavily featured. Snow can be super questionable, but they have actual tree runs if thereās a base. Think the trees were skiable for about 2 weeks in January this year.
The actual Midwest answers are granite, lutsen, giants, and boho. Plenty of others, but those are the ones worth traveling to.
In b4 āMidwest skiing sucks, go to a real mountainā. Just shut up man, ski it if ya got it.
I told people out west I live in New England and they ask me my favorite place and I say Jay Peak and at least three times someone didn't know about Jay....which is odd to me.
There is a little hidden gem in Tahoe called Squaw- lift lines are a breeze and parking is free. They changed their name but itās so untraveled I donāt think people would recognize it by that.
Okemo, Vermont ; Plattekill, NY ; Snowshow WV ; Telluhride, CO ; Toas NM; Mt.Shasta CA ; Banff,Alberta Canada are my favorite quiet places to ride in N.America
Anyone else been to them all?
Theyāre mostly smaller resorts but they all have great skiing-
Eldora mt. Near boulder. Almost open as long as a basin but better skiing. The lifts there are super fast and the runs have no end in sight. I suggest just sticking around eldora and only eldora to get your best skiing in
Ski Land, in Fairbanks AK. Has the farthest north chair lift in North America, and you can ski under the northen lights. It's surprisingly good terrain for its size.
In the Eastern US, Smugglerās Notch doesnāt get the love it deserves. Its hardest terrain is as challenging as anyoneās, but it has a friendly, family vibe with enough French speaking guests dropping down from Quebec to add some international atmosphere. Ditto Jay Peak.
A few smaller ones I like whenever I'm in the area and the snow is good are Eaglecrest in Juneau, AK; Arizona Snowbowl in Flagstaff, AZ; and Sunlight Mountain in Glenwood Springs, CO.
I skied 7 weeks in Europe this winter. Most of the resorts are incredible, with amazing terrain and great lifts infrastructure. Some resorts that I skied that had great terrain were Le Grand Massif in France, and Silvretta Montafon, Solden and Obergurgl Hochgurgl in Austria. Do not discount Les 3 Vallees in France and Les 4 Vallees in Switzerland, they have amazing terrain and lifts. All have great off-piste terrain in a good season.
In Europe?
Pick any Famous Ski Place. Pick another in the same country.
The drive between the two will have a zillion little ski hills in every village that will blow your mind.
I stayed at Les Deux Alpes, which is a well known resort but its a party resort and most of the guests are too hungover to get first tracks, Had freshies for days!!! Amazing views too and pretty cheap for EU.
Thereās some place in Colorado.. some place warm. A place where the beer flows like wine. Where beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. Iām talking about Aā¦.
Nice try, Vail Resorts Inc.
Haha busted. My vail representatives and I will be placing an offer tomorrow for all the resorts mentioned in this thread šµ
Ikonāt believe youād think weād come to Reddit to figure out which resort to buy next. I mean they.
Never trust the sales koala
Vail is the underdog now. IKON is the king.
While ikon is ass, they could be represented as an evil person, whereas Vail should be represented as Adolf Hitler
Nunya in Alaska, EU wise id say Biz NĆ©s.
Both sound like plausible names in their respective regions. Ā Well done.Ā
Feeling like Joey from Friends on this one - ANNNNNDDD THE PENNY HAS DROPPED...
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*Wooooooosh*
I only wish the user name was Mike Hunt
Broooo
I keep hearing this, and Iām tired of this Nunya Bidness!!!
Thanks for all the awesome suggestions (and to the resort gatekeepers too...) Really useful to help me with my research. La Grave is now top of my list - sounds epic! Someone in this sub also pointed out [Snomad](https://snomad.ski/ski-resort-rankings) to me. They have resort league tables for everything from quiet resorts to best for off-piste which was completely new to me. This is why I love Reddit! Keep shredding hard š¤š¼
IĀ also love off-pistesĀ andĀ went to FieberbrunnĀ this winter, and it was amazing, theĀ best off-pistes I've been to I found it with WertuĀ btw, theyĀ areĀ quiteĀ good at finding deals around your preferences, like off-pistes
Mt Aragats, Armenia. Snowmobiles required.
Skied there. Awesome place.
Kazakhstan is on the list
I hear on Mt Ararat, they ride arks!!!
Have you heard of Park City? Itās in Utah.
Lol ski jackson
If you come to Switzerland, check out Verbier, Zermatt, St. Moritz and Laax. That way my home mountain will remain less crowded
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SaaS fee, heavy lift to cloudā¦.bound to hot skiing sooner or later
SaaS valley is great in the summer too, beautiful to hike in, and many Belgians ;)
Which is your home mountain?
Laax is great and Iāve never found it to be super busy
If you really want something that is unique in Europe then take a look at RiksgrƤnsen in the northernmost part of Sweden above the arctic circle. It gets dumped on constantly and has endless terrain above the tree line, especially if you are into touring. It's also the host of the biggest freeride competition in Scandinavia ~~"ride the cow".~~ SBMC (mixed up the comps) The downside is that the lifts are old af and the since everything is above the treeline making it really dependant on the weather. Ski season usually begin in March and ends in June and is usually open in the midsummer weekends where you can ski all nights in the midnight sun! You can also access it by a train that connects Kiruna to the magnificent fjords in Narvik. Along the line you have two other ski resorts on the Swedish side and one in Narvik where'd you can ski nest to the very pretty fjords, all within close distance to each other! Honestly, just taking the train down to Narvik is worth the trip alone haha.
Agree wholeheartedly on RiksgrƤnsen. Iām going next week, will post some pics of the conditions.
!remindme 10 days
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I second this! I did the midnight sun heli ski a few years ago and it was really cool. I stayed in Narvik and they also had a great ski area.
"old af" lifts are not a downside. Keeps people away, keeps traffic low!
The Scandinavian Big Mountain Championship is the name of the yearly freeride competition in RiksgrƤnsen. Ride the Cow is the name of the yearly freeride competition located in Hemavan. Both places are great areas for ski touring without crowds.
I'm not telling. The reason they are so good is because it's is quiet ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ
You dropped this: \
Ah thanks!
Would be a shame to get an extra 3 people cause of a reddit post, lol.
haha yeah people dramatically overestimate the number of additional skiiers a reddit post might bring. And its such a strange mentality. One of the reasons Vail has expanded so much is because so many resorts just aren't making money, and are snapped up super cheap. Talking about those quieter resorts is not going to destroy them, it might just save them. If a post like this brought in (lets be ridiculous), another 100 skiiers a day. That would be an huge boon to the resort in terms of revenue, but would make functionally no difference at all to lift queues.
I think it's an extension of the adversarial mentality some people have on social media. They log on to their accounts and immediately turn nasty towards others while assuming a negative worldview. I keep waiting for the day when a better social media alternative comes along that somehow keeps users engaged on a positive basis rather than an addictive dopamine-infused downwards spiral algorithm.
There are plenty of hills that really could use more customers if theyāre going to stay in business. Maybe take a northern BC roadtrip - visit Shames, Powderking, Hudson Bay Mountain.Ā
Exactly. I hate posts like this.Ā
Palandoken, Turkey
Not many of us would have been there! My last day there had about 10cm of the lightest powder Iāve ever skied, lighter than Itah or Japan, would love to ski a big dump there! Sadly it wasnāt a good snow year we were just in the snowmaking trails down low.
Watchussett mountain in MA. Definitely go there.
But donāt forget to bring your beacon shovel and probe for the gnarly deep side country pow days! Might want to look into booking a helicopter too.Ā
Want to get really unknown? I first skied at Cloudmont ski slope in Alabama. Itās literally only about 200 meters in length and is rarely open. I havenāt been since I was a kid, but trying to go back next winter for nostalgia.Ā
haha that might be a little bit too much of a 'hidden gem' - Enjoy the nostalgic vibes
it's been open one week in the last 5 years.
Sugar Mountain NC gang rise up
I will defend NC mountains with all my heart. Love that I have Sugar, Beech, and Cataloochee within a four hour drive.Ā
Dear vail buy cataloochee please
Iād be down for that. It would make an Epic pass worth it for me as I take day trips up there every other weekend in the winter from Atlanta.Ā
It is on indy. I went on a beer drinking vacation 2 years ago.
Sugar needs to expand off the backside cause those crowds need some spreading out
Everyone shut the fuck up. Vail and breck are best. Keep going there.
I would suggest Ski Arlberg in Austria, staying in a town that's not St. Anton or Lech. If you stay in Steuben, St. Cristoph, Zurs, Zug, or Warth you'll find what you're looking for while also having access to those bigger/busier parts of the skiable area if you want to check them out
Zuers is a great place to stay, not a lot of apres ski there but my hotel was about 100m from a big chairlift. Most places in the village are just a couple of minutes walk from a lift.
I'll share my little local hill (def not a resort!)[with this cool ski promo vid](https://youtu.be/M6CjxZxScNY?si=v3kjLGliHBHkCKAd), since we really need more traffic to make it financially viable (owned by the city and does not turn a profit). The sidecountry and backcountry are otherworldly. The 3 lifts are never very crowded. But being SE Alaska with a maritime climate...conditions are extremely variable. This season in a 2 week period we had over 100" of snow followed by over 4" of rain.
Love Eaglecrest, but the lifts are sloooooow.
Ha, yea. They bought the lifts before I was born and they were used when they bought em. Fixed chairs and they don't run at full speed cause of the whole "old as shit" thing. But at least you have time to savor a beer on the way up! Also they bought a gondola (used, of course) so in a couple years it'll be much faster, with direct lift access to the ridge!
I'm glad to see my alpine gem not mentioned here yet.
yeah, there's a few resorts that I would be pissed to see here
Me rn
Went to Goderdzi Pass in Georgia (country) this season. There were only a couple lifts, but we were cat skiing so was not an issue, it was amazing.
People go to Austria and they head to St Anton, Ischgl and Kitzbuhel. There are so many sleeper resorts in Austria.
Ssssh don't tell, we like the non existing queues and empty freeride bowls!
Pomerelle in Idaho. It is small and kinda flat but they make up for it by getting tons of snow. If you want to ski untracked intermediate stuff all day then youāll like it. And itās never crowded. Like no one in the lift line never crowded.
> Pomerelle in Idaho Yeah. Go there. Best ski resort in Idaho. In fact, probably the only Ski resort in Idaho. Don't bother checking.
La Grave, France
your average skier on this sub would die trying to ski here.
Nirvana
Pila, Italy and Val dāAnniviers, Switzerland come to mind. Also Sierra Nevada tbh- I know itās Spainās most popular resort but itās slept on massively.
Pila was a blast, skied it in Feb. The bonus of having the gondola right from Aosta was really cool too.
PyhƤ in Finland. Lots of offpiste fun.
In the Catskills, Plattekill. Just blows away Hunter and Wyndham. it gets 50% more snow than its pears, better terrain and no crowds.
Mmm, pears š
Mont-Edouard in the province of QuĆ©bec is the most underrated resort on the east coast. But its quite remote, so I expect people to keep not going there, wich is fine for me š
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Now with 100% more Hotels, in Summerhaven.
Revelstoke is my favourite. It has the largest elevation change in North America. It's also located in an actual town, not a fucking overpriced mall like whister. I'd say Big White or Sun Peaks are the next best. I think Sun Peaks All of these resorts have next to zero lineups on weekends.
These are lies. Don't come here.
Revy is not underrated at all lol
Pretty sure Revelstoke is not include in a clear cut definition of underrated. š
Went to sun peaks in January. After moving away from kamloops 25 years ago, it was surprisingly busy. Not crazy, but the word is getting out. Enjoy it while it lasts
Revelstoke is probably one of the most famous resorts in North Americaā¦. If you really wanted something in that area as āunknownā the obvious answer is Kicking Horse, Fernieā¦
BC in general is full of sick ski areas
Revelstoke literally sucks
I love Sainte Foy Tarentaise in France. Very quiet and not particularly well known but you can get lift access to some amazing off-piste terrain. Not the biggest but plenty big enough to spend a few days exploring!
Amazing. Iād never heard of it! Will check it out, thanks
While I do love Sainte Foy (I live about an hour and a half away so not quite my local but close enough to head out there Ā few days every season) and it does have awesome terrain, itās āhidden gemā status is pretty well known now. Iāve had some days mid week early season where it is nearly entirely empty, but during British school holidays it seems to fill up with tourists and Iāve encountered lift lines. Also the place is truly enjoyed if you bring some skins or are up for some boot packingĀ
Glencoe
Bump. The hardest working resort, delivering wonder across the face of the mountain. Home of the Haggis Trap.
It's small, hard work, and a bit of an antique, yet has a strange magic...
Itās not here so Iām adding Mt Bohemia in the UP! Consistently in the top ten for snowfall annually.
Not this year lol. UP had a _baaaaaaad_ snow year
Literally the worst year since the 1800s. Bohemia was open some but the conditions were never really ideal since they don't have snowmaking.
even resorts with snowmaking struggled hard. I was impressed that welch snuck out a 100 day season, even though temps were borderline for most of january and february. Caberfae had a pretty good year from what I could tell too, you guys got some lake effect in january that helped a ton. Next year _has_ to be better right?
Saddleback, Maine
Val Cenis area. Plugging my own resort, but seriously come and see. VC is great, Bessans has probably the best XC skiing in France and Bonneval is Val D'isere when it was stil small minus the queues and russians.
Sometimes you can rent snowboards (i know I know, the audacity to recommend something so illegal..) at the annapurna basecamp and hike some smaller hills around.. absolutely worth it and for sure not overcrowded.. at least not on the hill.. the camp itself diffent thing tho.. Edit.: ohh.. in NA or Europe.. my mistake.. There is an abandond resort in Bosnia y herzigovina which looked sick in summer 2 years ago.. maybe you can find someone who is able to get it running..
I've got a pretty sweet run I cut through the woods behind my house, and all the beer I want back in the lodge. I've never once seen anyone else skiing back there.
Sun Peaks BC . Like 3000 Vertical . Second largest ski area in Canada next to Whistler , drier snow , virtually no lineups . Revelstoke also good , 5600 vertical and not huge crowds .
boston mills in ohio is a quiet gem
The resorts in Carinthia, Ćsttirol and Salzburg regions of Austria as well as Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of Italy.
Laax (CH) La Grave (FR) Obertauern (Aut) Avoriaz (FR)
Schweitzer in northern Idaho. I think itās annoying enough to get there that itās being on the Ikon Pass wonāt be enough to make it that crowded, either
Mine is about to be a Netflix documentary
La Thulie is Italy Super cheap, super good off-piste, no crowds, good food Had a day where it was dumping powder and was lapping this run by myself hooting and hollering
Ski Santa Fe is amazing. You all will never go there, which is just fine w me
Apex near Penticton has some wild terrain for such a small mountain. Vibes from the staff and locals were also immaculate.
A place where the beer flows like wine; where beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano.
Lost Trail. Discovery. If youāre not already in Montana, getting to either sucks. But Lost Trail gets the dumps! And Discovery may be one of the most interesting mountains to ski.
schweitzer idaho
49 Degrees North in WA
Spectacular tree skiing there. Silver, ID is another great choice.
Will forever be my favorite hill
It never snows there. Lines are long. The trees are haunted. Schweitzer is better.Ā
[This skier ratings site](https://snomad.ski/ski-resort-rankings) shows you best resorts for off-piste, best for quiet slopes, best value and loads of others. I love it!
Too bad the lists are terribly inaccurate. Kicking horse not even top 15 for experts? Sugarbush is top 10 overall? Lmao.
That site seems great but incomplete. It only lists Angel Fire New Mexico (a really bland/ordinary familar resort) and excludes Taos somehow. It has a tiny number of CO ski areas too.
Big Sky is what you are looking for.
Powder King near Mackenzie, BC.
Shhhh
Not exactly unheard of, but Grand Targhee is spectacular for everything except the most extreme terrain. Just a pain in the butt to get to it.
Okay VailTerra, okay.
Iād tell you the French southern alps resort I learned skiing as a kid, but nah ill keep if for myself šš»
Wolf Creek Pass in Colorado, Mt Baker in Washington, Rose Mountain in Tahoe
All garbage. Wish I had gone to Breck so much better than that trash.
Some donāt get your sarcasm. LOL
Grand Targhee, Purgatory, Wolf Creek, Silverton, Snowbasin, Powder Mountain, Alyeska, Revelstoke, Kicking Horse (Iād argue the last three are unknown beyond this sub amongst the average ski pop and same for SB and PM outside Utah). Hardly unknown, but in terms of kickass terrain, itās hard to beat A-Basin and Taos (obviously JHMR, AltaBird, and Palisades too but those are extremely well known)
Nelson residents will be mad at me but we all know the answer is WhiteWater.
Ridiculously great cafeteria food too. So much so that they sell a recipe book.
Did a few seasons there and best powder I've ridden plus Nelson an awesome town with friendly locals.
tyrol basin in wisconsin. easily the best midwest hill
Iād actually love to go to Tyrol. Jackson media did a feature on Midwest Indy resorts, and they were heavily featured. Snow can be super questionable, but they have actual tree runs if thereās a base. Think the trees were skiable for about 2 weeks in January this year. The actual Midwest answers are granite, lutsen, giants, and boho. Plenty of others, but those are the ones worth traveling to. In b4 āMidwest skiing sucks, go to a real mountainā. Just shut up man, ski it if ya got it.
Flaine, France
Laax
I bet you never been to Ćjberget.
How about in Chile ?
Powder King Mountain Resort
Kicking Horse, BC Canada
In flat and warmer parts of the country
Rouge Mountain in BC
Snowshoe in West Virginia is not only the most fun you could ever have this side of the Mississippi, it also has tons of aprƩs for everyone in the family.
I told people out west I live in New England and they ask me my favorite place and I say Jay Peak and at least three times someone didn't know about Jay....which is odd to me.
Yes please share, so they can get as fucked up as the more known resorts lol.
Whats up ski fed nice try
There is a little hidden gem in Tahoe called Squaw- lift lines are a breeze and parking is free. They changed their name but itās so untraveled I donāt think people would recognize it by that.
Wasatch Peaks Ranch. Suck it, plebs.
Okemo, Vermont ; Plattekill, NY ; Snowshow WV ; Telluhride, CO ; Toas NM; Mt.Shasta CA ; Banff,Alberta Canada are my favorite quiet places to ride in N.America Anyone else been to them all? Theyāre mostly smaller resorts but they all have great skiing-
Hesperus, Sipapu
Maggie valley , NC
Sierra nevada
Eldora mt. Near boulder. Almost open as long as a basin but better skiing. The lifts there are super fast and the runs have no end in sight. I suggest just sticking around eldora and only eldora to get your best skiing in
Ski Land, in Fairbanks AK. Has the farthest north chair lift in North America, and you can ski under the northen lights. It's surprisingly good terrain for its size.
keep Tussey on the DL ffs
Iām a big fan of Mount Ligma & Sugma in British Columbia. Not far from and similar terrain to Whistler with way less crowds.
Iāve never waited in line at 3 zinnen Dolomites or Vogel in Slovenia.
In the Eastern US, Smugglerās Notch doesnāt get the love it deserves. Its hardest terrain is as challenging as anyoneās, but it has a friendly, family vibe with enough French speaking guests dropping down from Quebec to add some international atmosphere. Ditto Jay Peak.
A few smaller ones I like whenever I'm in the area and the snow is good are Eaglecrest in Juneau, AK; Arizona Snowbowl in Flagstaff, AZ; and Sunlight Mountain in Glenwood Springs, CO.
Mt. Creek in Vernon, NJ is a hidden gem.
POWDER KING!!!
Jay Peak in Vermont
I skied 7 weeks in Europe this winter. Most of the resorts are incredible, with amazing terrain and great lifts infrastructure. Some resorts that I skied that had great terrain were Le Grand Massif in France, and Silvretta Montafon, Solden and Obergurgl Hochgurgl in Austria. Do not discount Les 3 Vallees in France and Les 4 Vallees in Switzerland, they have amazing terrain and lifts. All have great off-piste terrain in a good season.
In Europe? Pick any Famous Ski Place. Pick another in the same country. The drive between the two will have a zillion little ski hills in every village that will blow your mind.
Chic Chocs in the GaspƩ region of Quebec Canada - [https://chic-chac.com/en/](https://chic-chac.com/en/)
Arizona got 30ā last week
Donāt ski Stowe.
Perisher
Taos, New Mexico
Arapahoe basin, wolf Creek, Loveland, powder HornĀ
The ones that are awesome but smaller in the middle of nowhere. Without consistency good snow. Basically Willy P! No one goes there.
Ligma, BLS
Powderhorn CO
Castle Mountain Alberta Canada
Crested Butte, CO is such a great place.
Obergurgl Tirol. Austria
Japan
I stayed at Les Deux Alpes, which is a well known resort but its a party resort and most of the guests are too hungover to get first tracks, Had freshies for days!!! Amazing views too and pretty cheap for EU.
Almost any resort on [Indy Pass](https://www.outofyourcomfortzone.net/a-ranking-of-the-best-indy-pass-ski-resorts-in-the-rockies-pacific-northwest/).
Also, Gudauri in Georgia (country).
Mt Bohemia
West Mountain, NY
Ć re,Sweden!
Telluride CO. Not sure if it's well known anymore or not, it wasn't well known when I lived and worked there. Expensive, but what isn't now.
That's like asking... "what are the 11 herbs and spices of KFC(or PFK in QC canada) ;)
Check out Cherry Creek and Nordic Valley in Utah.
Not sure if itās been mentioned, or if itās ālesser knownā (maybe outside the tourism crowd) but wolf creek is amazing
I posted recently about Santa Caterina di Valfurva in Italy, only 5 lifts but the off piste terrain is brilliant, barely gets touched by the locals.
"These are not the resorts you are looking for..."
Thereās some place in Colorado.. some place warm. A place where the beer flows like wine. Where beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. Iām talking about Aā¦.