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Getting Better All the Time! In the Chautauqua Allegheny region, the 58-slope Holiday Valley Resort in Ellicottville boasts the new $12 million Holiday Valley Lodge, which serves as the main base’s day lodge, with dining, entertainment, meeting space, a daycare center, and ski and snowboard rentals and repairs. Holiday Valley has expanded its automated snowmaking to cover three additional main slopes while drawing less energy. holidayvalley.com In the Adirondacks, new snowmaking equipment means skiers and riders don’t have to rely on Mother Nature to provide enough snow to cover Whiteface Mountain’s expert 4,700-foot-long Hoyt’s High Trail. The ©COURTESY HOLIDAY VALLEY New York’s Mountains Holiday Valley, Ellicottville In the Catskills, family-friendly Windham Mountain, with 49 trails, 10 lifts and beginner to expert terrain, continues to expand with new low level ski and riding terrain, a bigger and better base lodge, and four new acres of beginner terrain. Snowmaking capabilities have been enhanced in both quantity and quality. Other news includes a 41-unit condominium building and an ice-skating rink. windhammountain.com Wilmington ski area has also upgraded its snowmaking in other areas and renovated its Base Camp Café and Cloudspin Lounge, adding dining choices ranging from the Black Diamond Burrito to the Firepit Grill. The area offers 86 trails and a 3,430 foot vertical drop. whiteface.com Just south of Windham, familyand black diamond-friendly Hunter Mountain has unveiled its Big Lift Card season pass, with major bonuses for tickets purchased before mid-November. Hunter has 55 trails with a vertical drop of 1,600 feet and continues to upgrade its snowmaking and grooming capabilities. huntermtn.com Gore Mountain in North Creek has added 160 new high-efficiency tower snow guns and 30 shorter snow guns for better coverage of expert, family and core terrains, as well as new grooming equipment to maintain the tubing lanes. Terrain Park upgrades feature a new Skier/BoarderX course while lodge improvements include a new radiant heat system for the deck and a completely renovated Tannery Pub & Restaurant. Gore offers 40 miles of scenic trails, including The Rumor, one of the steepest in the East. goremountain.com Thanks to intensive snowmaking and grooming, Bristol Mountain in Canandaigua is one of the first ski resorts to open for the season and among the last to close. Snow East magazine readers recently ranked Bristol Mountain Winter Resort second in the northeastern US as Favorite Snowmaking and Favorite Terrain Park, third for Favorite Grooming and a Top 4 Favorite Ski Resort in the Northeast. bristolmountain.com Windham Mountain, Windham WINTER • 8 • 800/CALL-NYS http://www.holidayvalley.com http://www.windhammountain.com http://www.whiteface.com http://www.huntermtn.com http://www.bristolmountain.com http://www.goremountain.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of ILNY Travel Guide - Winter 2013/2014

ILNY Travel Guide - Winter 2013/2014
Contents
What's Hot This Winter
Family Fun
Downhill Skiing, Riding & Tubing
Cross-Country Skiing
Ski Centers Map
Snowshoeing
Winter Fishing
Snowmobiling
Shopping
Upstate Theater
Spring Adventures
Winter Events

ILNY Travel Guide - Winter 2013/2014

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