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Introduction to U.S. Ski Resorts Outside of Colorado

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Among American ski resorts, Colorado grabs all the glory. Every year, thousands of skiers make the trek to ski Aspen, Vail, or one of the other big-name Colorado resorts. Colorado, however, contains only a fraction of the great resorts in the United States. All across the country, you can find comparable or superior snow in beautiful locations.

Utah is perhaps the main competitor with Colorado; the Beehive State boasts the “Greatest Snow on Earth” and hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics. New York and California have also hosted Winter Olympic Games (Colorado has never hosted). Wyoming, Idaho, New Mexico, and Montana each have one or two famous and fabulous resorts, as well as a plethora of great, crowd-less resorts. On the other side of the country, you can ski the Appalachian Mountains in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine.

This article will not do justice to all the great American ski resorts. Alaska, for example, has plenty of snow and some of the best skiing in the world, but because it is not easily accessible, we will not discuss it.

You can, however, easily get to slopes in some places you might never expect skiing. North Carolina, for example, has six ski areas, and Tennessee, West Virginia, and Maryland all have a few resorts in their mountains as well. Michigan, Wisconsin, and Illinois dot the American Midwest with ski resorts, and states as far south as Missouri even offer skiing, albeit on artificial snow.

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