Although Winter is still hanging on in the Canadian Rockies, I understand that the East just went through a serious dose of Summer temps.
East or West, ski areas all face the end of season disinterest. For example, Mont Comi in Eastern Quebec has sometimes made it to late April or even May closed last Sunday with 100% of their runs. Seeing the same here where Revelstoke, Kicking Horse and Fernie also closed this past weekend.
Most of the liftserved skiing in the East can be found in Quebec and Vermont with a little spin over into Maine. Ontario’s Searchmont located just north of Sault Ste-Marie is the outlier here with no one else open within almost 1,000 kms. (Searchmont announced that their season was over)**
Please for the love of Ullr, go skiing and encourage the operators that are giving a heck to continue to spin lifts. Five Eastern ski areas are aiming to spin lifts in May. Give them some business.
Numbers from previous seasons:
Total / Eastern US
2023 : 13 / 6 **
2022 : 18 / 9
LIST OF 13 15 SKI AREAS TENTATIVELY OFFERING SKIING INTO APRIL **
QUEBEC : 7 8 *
Édouard – April 23 (tentative – weekend only) *
Val St-Côme – April 23 (weekend only)
Ste-Anne – April 23 (Friday-Sunday only)
Tremblant – April 23
Vallée Bleue – April 29 (tentative – Saturday only)
Le Valinouet – April 30 (tentative – Friday-Sunday only) *
St-Sauveur – May 22 (daily until April 23 then Friday-Sunday + Victoria Monday)
Miller – open this weekend /TBD (weekend only)**
ONTARIO : 1**
Searchmont – April 23 (weekend only)**
VERMONT : 4
Snow – April 23
Sugarbush – May 7 TBD (tentative – daily until Apr 23 then Friday-Sunday only)
Jay – May 7 TBD (tentative – daily until Apr 30 then weekend only)
Killington – Jun 4 TBD (tentative – daily until Apr 30 then Friday-Sunday only)
MAINE : 2
Sunday River – April 23 (weekend only)
Sugarloaf – May 1
* Update, April 20, 12:30pm: Edouard is confirmed for the weekend. Meanwhile regional neighbour and 100% natural snow Le Valinouet announced that their season was over.
** Update, April 21, 1pm: Ontario’s last standing area, Searchmont, has just announced that they will not be reopening this weekend. Mont Miller confirmed it was open this weekend.
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