If an authentic, low-key experience is your vision of a ski holiday, the East Coast’s, admittedly colder than Cali, slopes are a playground of pistes for winter sports.
The USA’s mountain ranges, including the eastern Appalachians, are home to numerous ski resorts blanketed in snow over the winter season.
It’s under an eight-hour hop across the pond for British skiers to get to the East Coast; that’s around four reruns of the 2016 Eddie the Eagle movie, and a shaved flight time from the further-flung pistes of Colorado.
Plus, weeks or weekends spent slopeside in New England and upstate New York tie in nicely with a bucket list city break to the Big Apple come Christmas.
From the glam, groomed runs of Bretton Woods in the White Mountains to the pistes and parks of Vermont’s Killington, here are the best of the east coast’s slopes.
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Sunday River Resort, Maine
Santa Sunday raises money for charity every year
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Eight peaks, 139 trails, a network of 19 lifts and 884 acres of skiable terrain make up Sunday River Resort in Maine’s mountainous Newry, including the new-for-2023, high-speed Barker 6 ski lift, one of North America’s fastest. Shedloads of dependable snow – natural and manmade – powder the pistes from October to April so it’s no surprise that seasoned skiers flock to the eastern slopes on their weekends for downhill, twilight and Nordic skiing.
There’s even an annual Santa Sunday in December that sees hundreds of Father Christmas lookalikes take to Sunday River’s slopes to raise money for local education charity, The River Fund.
How to ski in Sunday River
Expedia is providing a seven-night stay at the ski-in/ski-out Grand Summit Hotel in Newry for £1,738 in a comfortable standard room sleeping four. A free ski shuttle, ski equipment hire and skiing lessons are also all accessible at the Grand, with Sunday River’s ski resort a stone’s throw away. Departs 2 January 2024.
Return flights from London Gatwick to Augusta State Airport from £617 with JetBlue in January.
Bretton Woods, New Hampshire
New Hampshire’s largest ski area, Bretton Woods offers glam slopeside stays
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With 464 acres of runs, New Hampshire’s largest ski resort, Bretton Woods, means business when it comes to alpine and racing ski sessions on trails with snowmaking to rival a…
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