Sunrise 2024 at Bretton Woods Credit: Ski NH

New Hampshire’s ski areas were hard at work this summer adding new lifts and upgrading technology and snowmaking, to create an even better than before experience for skiers and snowboarders.

Here’s what’s new this season from our friends at Ski New Hampshire, the statewide association representing more than 30 alpine and cross-country resorts.  Alphabetically, of course, since that’s the only fair way.

Bretton Woods will debut the new Bethlehem Express Quad II (BEQII), a four-person Leitner-Poma detachable quad. Its installation also includes a redesigned base area layout to ease congestion and improve safety.

The resort also is unveiling a new black diamond glade on Mount Rosebrook. This never-before-skied, steeper section features tree runs and cliff elements between the Upper Swoop and Upper Express trails, giving advanced skiers and riders exciting new terrain to explore.

Cannon Mountain retires its iconic tram, with plans in motion for a next-generation replacement – but that will be next season, 2026/27, not this one, and invested more than $200,000 in new pipelines and tower guns.

This season, guests will notice new roofing on the Notchview and Brookside lodges, fresh paint on the Peabody, Notchview and Brookside buildings and Peabody lift terminal, as well as new lighting, flooring, stair grips, and fans in the Peabody Lodge. There’s also new digital signage in Peabody.

Cranmore Mountain Resort is introducing Arctic Light Tubing, New Hampshire’s first glow-in-the-dark nighttime tubing adventure with lights and music. This experience will be available every Friday, Saturday, and Wednesday night throughout the season.

Dartmouth Skiway’s Master Plan has an ambitious goal of becoming the nation’s most sustainable ski area, featuring all-electric automated snowmaking, expanded glades, and a new Learning Center.

Great Glen Trails has widened several trails, which will reduce tree debris, leaves, branches, and blowdowns on the trail and result in improved skiing conditions.

King Pine has transformed its Evergreen Room into a multi-use event space featuring a custom bar, handcrafted post-and-beam ceiling, updated dance floor, and upgraded A/V systems. This follows recent improvements including the addition of a rooftop deck, which provided expanded base lodge outdoor seating, and a ‘magic carpet’ uphilllift at the Tubing Park.

Loon Mountain Resort will begin work this winter on New England’s first pulse gondola to connect the hotel to the base. There’s also new conveyor belts, or “magic carpets’ at Sasparilla Learning Center for safe, easy uphill transport for children and beginners.  The resort also doubled its snowmaking capacity on North Peak.  Loon has also added another Ford Lightning vehicle to their lineup, bringing them to five EVs in total – the most of any ski resort in the East.

Pats Peak will introduce the Hurricane Quad, a SkyTrac fixed-grip lift with a loading conveyor and enhanced loading zone for improved efficiency and guest experience;

Waterville Valley Resort will unveil a new MND Ropeways T-Bar, expanding uphill capacity and access to terrain for training programs, athletes, and recreational skiers and riders.  And, they

upgraded night skiing operations with energy-efficient LED lighting,

Whaleback Mountain is adding a new surface lift serving Lower Spout, the racing trail, as well as Canyon, Scrimshaw, and new connector trails.

Snowmaking and Sustainability

Snowmaking is energy-intensive, but advances in technology are making it more efficient than ever. Today’s systems allow areas to produce more snow with less energy while using smart monitoring tools to optimize when and where snow is made. This summer, several New Hampshire resorts made major snowmaking investments.

Gunstock Mountain Resort installed 24 new HKD Impulse tower guns and Klik hydrants to boost efficiency. Snowmaking upgrades also were made at Ragged Mountain Resort and Tenney Mountain.

Nordic areas also continue to benefit from expanded snowmaking capacity. Jackson XC and Great Glen Trails both added new snow guns at their cross-country centers this summer.

Energy efficiency efforts extend beyond snowmaking.

Cranmore Mountain Resort and Loon Mountain Resort have each added the PistenBully 600 E+ to its fleet—the cleanest and quietest snow groomer in its class. With its Tier 4 engine, the E+ reduces fuel consumption, noise, and CO₂ emissions by up to 20% while allowing staff to cover more terrain, faster.

Ski New Hampshire is the statewide association representing 30+ alpine and cross-country resorts in New Hampshire. For more information on ski areas, trail conditions, vacation planning, and updated events at Ski New Hampshire resorts, visit SkiNH.com.

For statewide travel info, go to VisitNH.gov.

See you on the snow!

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Evelyn Kanter is a NYC-based travel and environmental writer and a senior skier who would rather ride a chairlift, river raft or zipline than the subway, and has done so in the more than 100 countries she’s visited, skiing in many of them. In what she calls a “previous life”, she was a TV and radio news reporter for ABC News and CBS News, now a regular contributor to major publications, including airline inflights and AAA magazines, and has written or contributed to more than a dozen travel guidebooks.Her latest are “100 Things to Do in NYC Before You Die”, Fodor’s Essential Germany and Fodor’s New York City. Evelyn's website is www.ecoxplorer.com

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