INSIDER'S TIP Pico Mountain, a detached, wholly separate mountain from Killington, though owned by the resort, is a hidden jewel.
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Summit 4,241 feet Vertical Drop 3,050 feet Terrain 87 miles, plus 143 acres of tree skiing and riding terrain Trails 191 Lifts 30: 3 heated, express gondolas (1 with two stages) 11 quads (includes 7 express quads) 4 doubles 6 triples 6 surface lifts Price $82 (rate for adult Saturday or holiday lift ticket) Rentals $39 skis, boots and poles or board and boots helmet $13 Average Season Dates Mid-November through mid-AprilĬredit. But not everything has changed - at its heart, Killington Road is still the path to an important place and the place to be seen. Now there's sushi, designer shopping and some upscale accommodations. It was once a place for beer, chicken wings, pizza and a clean place to sleep. Like a lot of things at Killington, the access road is evolving. It sates many appetites, especially those who want early-morning access to the ski trails as a way to beat the crawling traffic, and those who need early-morning access to their lodging so they can crawl back from Killington's celebrated, rocking night spots. It is a dizzying maze of restaurants, hotels and shops. In town, all activity centers around Killington Road, the roughly three-mile access road from Route 4 to the mountain. The $8.4 million spent in overall upgrades this past off-season will likely foster some good will in the considerable community of Killington devotees, but it will be awhile before anyone knows what it all means and if the Beast can be tamed - or should be. But that project is several regulatory approvals, and years, away from ever breaking ground. The new ownership has other strategies, including a large village at the Killington base. Less might make more people happy at Killington. It has been suggested that the new owners' initiatives are a nod to the idea that Killington's overflowing weekend crowds are too much even for its 191 trails. It is a half-mile-long run that features wooded glades, banked turns, log slides and pillow lines.
Also new off the Skye Peak lift is the Stash, an all-natural freestyle riding experience created by Jake Burton. That was a frequent complaint in this area in past years. With the removal of the Snowshed Crossover pathway, these trails are no longer annoyingly dissected, and one can hope, less congested. The new lift should be popular because it accesses some reconfigured top-to-bottom intermediate and advanced trails. The new Skye Peak Express, the first new lift at Killington in 10 years, is chief among those enhancements, replacing an older quad and reducing the ride time up the mountain from 14 minutes to about five. The new owners brought new controversy to this always-talked-about resort, but this past off-season they also followed through on promised on-mountain improvements.
The debate over whether Killington is the best of Eastern skiing or simply overrated took a new turn last year when the resort was sold.
So there are a lot of opinions about Killington, the biggest ski resort east of the Mississippi River and known as the Beast of the East (for good reasons and bad). Then again, with numbers like that, you are letting a lot of critics through the door, too. Killington, Vt., (800) 621-6867 WHEN more than 700,000 people visit your resort each year, you must be doing something right.
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