The price of winter fun
A skier in January prepares for the super-steep drop of Lookout Below, one of the new trails that opened last year at the state-run Whiteface Mountain Ski Center in Wilmington.
(Enterprise file photo — Richard Rosentreter)
Among all the gear you’ll need to bring if you’re planning to go downhill skiing this winter — skis, boots, poles, helmet, goggles — nothing may be more important than your wallet. The average cost of a single-day, adult lift ticket at many of the big ski resorts in New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine has slowly crept close to or past $70 — and that’s the weekday and non-holiday rate. If you’re planning to ski or snowboard on the Saturday of President’s Day weekend or any other winter holiday, expect to pay more — in some cases $80 or more. An Enterprise review of single-day lift ticket prices at ski areas in northern New York and New England this winter found the two state-run ski centers in the Adirondacks, Whiteface Mountain and Gore Mountain, are in the middle of the pack in comparison to similar-size facilities.
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