DCSki examines four Mid-Atlantic ski areas that have inspired years of reader speculation about untapped potential: Blue Knob, Canaan Valley, Laurel Mountain, and Winterplace. Drawing on their terrain, snowfall, infrastructure, ownership, and operating constraints, the feature considers what improvements might help each mountain deliver more of what skiers already value.
West Virginia’s Corridor H highway has steadily shortened and simplified the trip from Washington and Northern Virginia to Tucker County’s ski areas, including Timberline Mountain, Canaan Valley Resort, and White Grass. DCSki looks at how each completed section has changed the region’s place on the Mid-Atlantic ski map, while unfinished segments promise further improvements through 2034.
In this DCSki Interview Series installment, Woody Bousquet discusses his family’s role in founding and operating Bousquet Ski Area in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, his own lifelong connection to skiing, and the inventions and stories that shaped the area. He also shares how his collection of vintage patches, maps, brochures, and other memorabilia helps preserve the history of Bousquet and other lost ski areas.
From his first turns on Blue Knob’s ice in 1967 to retirement winters in Utah, Jim Kenney has built a skiing life around family, friends, and a willingness to adapt. Drawing on more than 25 years of his DCSki stories, this retrospective follows his travels, revisits memorable days, and explores how he has kept enjoying the slopes into his seventies.
How much will it cost to get on the slopes this winter? The question has become surprisingly difficult to answer as date-specific ticket prices, advance-purchase discounts, passes, rentals, lessons, food, and travel send each skier’s total in a different direction. DCSki examines the prices Mid-Atlantic skiers are likely to encounter during the 2026-2027 season and offers some practical ways to keep the bill under control.
Fall brings a different kind of activity to Mid-Atlantic ski resorts, with Oktoberfests, foliage chairlift rides, mountain biking, live music, arts festivals, and even a celebration devoted to Bigfoot. DCSki rounds up some of the events worth checking out this fall as the mountains begin their gradual transition toward winter.
Skiing has become expensive, but bargains have not disappeared. DCSki looks across the Mid-Atlantic for the season passes, night tickets, family programs, lodging packages, and other offers that can still put skiers on the snow without draining the winter budget.
Buying a ski pass used to mean choosing a home mountain. And that was pretty much it. Today, Mid-Atlantic skiers must sort through national products, regional passes, reciprocal agreements, limited-day packages, blackout dates, and prices that change several times before winter. It can be overwhelming! DCSki tries to break through the confusion by examining the leading options for 2026-2027 and the skiers each one serves best.
One of the strongest El Niño events in the modern record is developing ahead of the 2026-2027 ski season, increasing the odds of an active, moisture-rich storm track across the East. DCSki looks at the latest forecasts, lessons from past El Niño winters, and the factors that could determine whether that moisture arrives at Mid-Atlantic ski areas as snow or rain.
Before webcams, navigation apps, digital lift passes, and group texts, Mid-Atlantic skiers relied on snow phones, paper trail maps, printed directions, and carefully chosen meeting places. This retrospective recalls the uncertainty and occasional adventure of skiing before the smartphone while considering how modern technology has made trips safer, easier, and better documented.
