Listed below is New Hampshire's most comprehensive ski resort guide with 21 ski resorts. The Highest elevations point in New Hampshire is Mt. Washington 6,288 ft and the lowest point Atlantic Ocean 0 ft. New Hampshire experiences a humid continental climate (Koppen climate classification Dfa in southern areas and Dfb in the north), with warm, humid summers, cold, wet winters.
Attitash offers classic New England style trails with narrow curves and challenging pitches, including a challenging 46 degrees on the Ptarmigan trail. Bear Peak, first developed in 1994, offers more wide open terrain but also has plenty of challenge for more advanced skiers and riders.
Black Mountain is classic New England skiing. Black Mountain is a great value with plenty of ski terrain from novice to expert trails to keep everyone happy.
Bretton Woods is the choice for a fun, a complete winter playground with chutes, bumps, bowls, steeps, glades and plenty of wide-open cruising terrain.
Cannon Mountain opened in 1938, with North America's first aerial tramway. Home of the New England Ski Museum, Cannon offers classic New England skiing at its best, with a wide range of trails to suit all abilities. Because the area is owned and operated by the state of New Hampshire, development is minimal and lift tickets reasonably priced.
Cranmore mountain resort is known to cater to the needs of young families. Describing itself as New England's "snowplay resort," Cranmore offers the skiing and riding you'd expect, plus snowtubing, snowshoeing, ice skating and other services to keep children entertained.
Crotched Mountain only 330 minutes from Manchester is New Hampshire's newest ski area and keeps getting better! Crotched Mountain the "Snoasis" has a vertical drop of 875 feet serviced by five lifts for skiers of all ability levels.
Dartmouth Skiway is located in Lyme, N.H., just 15 minutes north of the Dartmouth College campus, the Dartmouth Skiway features 30 trails on 104 skiable acres (including a snowboard park), with skiing for beginners to experts. The trails are serviced by three lifts: a quad chair lift and a J-bar lift on Winslow Mountain, and a double chair lift on Holt's Ledge.
Gunstock, or the Belknap Mountain Recreation Area, as it was originally known, was a product of the Great Depression. With the rampant unemployment of the 1930's the Works Progress Administration was conceived by President Franklin Roosevelt to provide a source of employment for worthwhile state and local projects ranging from flood control with dams, to road construction.
Small by comparison to its other ski resort neighbors in the White Mountains, King Pine serves the beginner and intermediate skier or rider and does it very well. Don't be fooled however, King Pine also features the third steepest trail in New Hampshire. Seventeen groomed miles of cross country terrain are also available.
In conjunction with King Pine, Purity Springs Resort provides the perfect getaway. Nestled among the pine trees, Purity Spring is a quiet alternative to the more bustling hotels and inns in nearby North Conway.
Loon Mountain two hours from Boston has 96% snow making and an average 10 feet of natural snowfall each season, Loon is usually open by mid-November and can continue operation into May.
Mount Sunapee is a classic New Hampshire resort with terrain for skiers of all ability levels with both wide and narrow trails, beautiful views and relatively uncrowded.
Pats Peak is one of the state's most accessible learn-to-ski-and- snowboard mountains, near southern New Hampshire metropolitan areas with three separate beginner areas to an F.I.S. race trail.
Today, Ragged Mountain offers the most affordable big mountain skiing and snowboarding experiences in New England with 200 + acres of trails, 98% state-of-the-art snowmaking coverage, nine lifts, and two New England colonial-style lodges.
Storrs Hill is a recreational gem in the city of Lebanon and at the heart of the Upper Valley. Few towns have a groomed ski area right in their downtown that is accessible to all.
The Balsams was called "one of the world's 12 poshest ski resorts" by SKI Magazine. The annual snow index for Dixville Notch is 250 inches and the base elevation is one of the highest in the East.
Located in the heart of the White Mountain National Forest, Waterville Valley is rated in the top 5 US cross country skiing destinations. The 4,004 foot high mountain soars above you, 2,020 feet of it lift-served with runs up to three miles long.
