Stand in line cafeteria-style or try something different. Food and drink choices are aplenty at Maine’s three largest ski mountains: Saddleback, Sunday River and Sugarloaf.
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There’s a lot more winter fun at Maine ski areas than just skiing. Here’s a few.
If skiing is not your thing, many places around the state offer tubing, sledding, skating and fat tire biking for winter fun.
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Sugarloaf to open for 75th anniversary season Friday
The Carrabassett Valley resort will offer a commemorative 75th anniversary face buff to the first 75 guests in line Friday.
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On MLK weekend, ski trip offers winter fun, community for Black visitors
Lisa Jones, the owner of Black Travel Maine, hopes the tour welcoming an underrepresented, and perhaps tentative, clientele counters a ‘false narrative’ about the Pine Tree State.
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PFAS in Maine can travel from stream to ski trail through snowmaking
Harmful and persistent forever chemicals that accumulate in some water bodies can be sprayed onto slopes by machine, but the extent of the risk is unknown.
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Many Maine ski areas relatively confident despite uncertain winter
For the most part, downhill resorts can use manmade snow to counter natural shortcomings. But not all slopes have the equipment.
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Mild winter takes a toll on Maine’s outdoor sports, seasonal economy
The 2023-24 winter was devastating for the snowmobile industry and the communities that rely on visitors coming to enjoy Maine’s trails.
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Climate change cost U.S. ski industry billions, study says, and future depends on emissions
A new study says U.S. ski areas lost $5 billion from 2000 to 2019 as a result of human-caused climate change.
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Some resorts off and running as alpine ski season begins in Maine
Sugarloaf and Sunday River, the state’s two largest ski resorts, opened in recent weeks, with others to follow suit in December.
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Vermont to pay $16.5 million to settle lawsuits by foreign investors in fraudulent ski development
The former owners of Jay Peak were accused of misusing more than half of about $400 million raised for ski area developments from foreign investors through a visa program that offered the investors a chance at permanent U.S. residency.