Residents of those cities can reach Park City or Keystone faster than their Midwest neighbors. Four hours from Minneapolis, five from Milwaukee, six-and-a-half from Chicago. Big Snow Country is far from pretty much everything. The great tension here is the opposite problem that most of the region’s mobbed ski areas face: great skiing, too few skiers. There is so much skiing here because the terrain and the climate seemed sculpted exactly for it.Īs a result, the skiing is genuinely sublime. But the ski areas of Big Snow Country are different.
The people of the Midwest do as they please. There are not many hills around Milwaukee or Minneapolis or Detroit, but there are plenty of ski areas. So much of Midwest skiing is funky and improvisational, a tinkerer’s paradise, where the same spirit that animated 20 th century factories willed one of the world’s great ski cultures into existence. Seated fewer than a dozen miles above them, brooding and enormous, is Lake Superior, one of the most reliable lake-effect snowmachines on the planet: Zion, Big Powderhorn, and Snowriver, which is a union of the once-separate Indianhead and Blackjack ski areas (now known as Jackson Creek Summit and Black River Basin). There, seated west-to-east, are four – once five – ski areas: Whitecap Mountains, Mt. One of the most reliable of these micro-snowzones is Big Snow Country, a hilly wilderness straddling the border of northern Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Northern New Mexico, where half a dozen ski areas surround the fabled Taos. Hood, one mountain that is home to four ski areas. Spokane through Schweitzer, Silver Mountain, and Lookout Pass. The Interstate 90 corridor from 49 Degrees North and Mt. But smaller, less celebrated-by-the-masses clusters dot the continent. We all know the epicenters upon which Epic and Ikon have anchored their empires: the Wasatch, Tahoe, the I-70 corridor, the Vermont Spine.
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This is a low-resolution thumbnail that shows the general distribution of ski areas across America. Whitecap has an additional triple chair that is currently dormant, but which Dziuban intends to resurrect. The carpet was not yet functional for the 2022-23 ski season. Skiers are not allowed to ride on the middle section, which passes over a long valley. Lift count: 6 (4 doubles, 1 triple, 1 carpet) – the North Pole-South Pole double functions as two separate chairs, even though it is one long continuous lift.
Trail count: 42 (4 expert, 12 advanced, 12 intermediate, 14 beginner) Ashwabay (1 hour, 15 minutes), Porcupine Mountains (1 hour, 21 minutes) Zion (28 minutes), Big Powderhorn (34 minutes), Snowriver (40 minutes), Mt. Reciprocal partners: Whitecap lists the following partners on its season pass page - it is not clear what the benefit is for each mountain: Grand Targhee, Wild Mountain, Mount Bohemia, Sunlight, Camp 10, Lee Canyon, Arizona Snowbowl, Lee Canyon, Mont du Lac.Ĭlosest neighboring ski areas: Mt. Pass affiliations: Indy Pass Allied Partner
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