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A Complete List of Every Mountain Vail Resorts Has Ever Purchased Over the past two decades, Vail Resorts has dramatically changed the landscape of the ski industry—acquiring properties around the world and becoming the most notorious corporation in mountain resort management. Here’s a timeline of how they did it. BY KEEGAN POPE | AUGUST 15, 2019 What do […]
Details On Mayflower Mountain Resort, Park City’s Newest, Emerge By Tony Gill August 19, 2019 What, exactly, is Mayflower Mountain Resort? It’s a difficult question to answer even as details havebegun to emerge about Park City’s impending, new ski resort. Mayflower will have a comprehensively developed base area along U.S. 40 and slopes overlooking the […]
LATEST TRUMP TARIFFS WOULD IMPACT WINTER SPORTS GOODS 02 August 2019 SAM Magazine—Washington, D.C., Aug. 2, 2019—President Trump said yesterday that the U.S. will impose a 10 percent tariff on $300 billion worth of Chinese imports, including a great percentage of snowsports products, starting Sept. 1. The move followed two days of trade negotiations with […]
Only One Ski Area Is Still Open In The United States By: UnofficialNet | July 29, 2019 It’s mid-summer, but one ski area is still open for skiing and riding. Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood in Oregon is still spinning lifts and offering up daily skiing and snowboarding on the Palmer Glacier. Timberline Lodge offers skiing from 7am to […]
BREAKING: “Base-to-Base” Gondola APPROVED From Squaw Valley to Alpine Meadows, CA SnowBrains | July 23, 2019 The Base-to-Base Gondola. The Placer County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the “Base-to-Base” Gondola from Squaw Valley to Alpine Meadows, CA with a mid-station in the White Wolf property/mini ski resort in North Lake Tahoe, California today. Gondola Update: The […]
Vail Resorts to Acquire Peak Resorts, Owner of 17 U.S. Ski Areas PRNewswire July 22, 2019 BROOMFIELD, Colo., July 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Vail Resorts, Inc. (MTN) today announced it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire 100 percent of the outstanding stock of Peak Resorts, Inc. (SKIS) at a purchase price of $11.00 per share, subject to […]
Sunlight begins 100-acre expansion project; new East Ridge lift in the works Thomas Phippen Sunlight Mountain Resort is starting a $4 million expansion project to add new routes, about 100 acres of expert skiing terrain, and eventually a new chair lift to its East Ridge. The first phase of the three-year project is currently under […]
W.Va. Resort’s Ski Operations up for Sale Court filings show a West Virginia resort’s owners plan to sell its ski operations. By Associated Press, Wire Service Content June 28, 2019 CHARLESTON, W.VA. (AP) — Court filings show a West Virginia resort’s owners plan to sell its ski operations. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports a petition filed this week in federal […]
Balsams Resort Placed on Market Tuesday, June 25, 2019, NewEnglandSkiIndustry.com The defunct resort is being advertised as ‘virtually shovel-ready. Just weeks after the $28 million state funding bill was signed into law, the Balsams has been placed on the market. According to the listing on CBRE (“the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm”), […]
World Cup Ski Racing to return to Killington Resort through 2020 June 3, 2019 Vermont Resort Welcomes Spectators and Athletes for Two More Years of World-Class Ski Racing Vermont’s Killington Resort, the largest ski and snowboard resort in Eastern North America and part of POWDR, and U.S. Ski & Snowboard, the National Governing Body (NGB) […]
$13-Million Upgrade to Mountain Village at Big Sky Resort, MT Underway SnowBrains | May 16, 2019 Artist’s rendering. Credit: Big Sky This summer, Big Sky Resort, MT is investing $13 million in re-envisioning its dining, après ski, restrooms, and lockers in the Mountain Village base area. Renovations are currently underway to introduce a modern food hall for the 2019-2020 […]
Martha Wilson Friday, 22 March 2019 K-1 Lodge rendering. (Bread Loaf Corporation, Architects, Planners, Builders) A reimagined K-1 base lodge with an expanded footprint is in store for skiers and riders at Vermont’s Killington Resort for the 2020-21 season. The Beast of the East also has plans in the works for a new four-person, fixed grip chairlift […]
