Snow and Snowmaking

Light snow is falling and we are currently making snow on nine trails, including Great Northern down to the bottom of Upper Bunny Buster (Mixing Bowl area) with 204 snow guns. Most impressively though, 190 of the snow guns in operation are Low E guns, which means we're not only making a lot of snow and building deep base depths, but we're making very efficient (and low cost) snow!

So when will Killington re-open for the season?

We’re focused on producing “efficient” snow and building deep base depths on the upper portions of the mountain, especially the Northridge area and Great Northern from the peak as far down as we can go. The current weather forecast calls for outstanding snowmaking temperatures – especially – from 3,000 feet and higher – through Thursday morning. Then, freezing rain and just plain old rain move in Thursday night through Saturday. Cold temps return again Sunday night and that’s when we will begin to make the push back to the bottom.

As we look forward into next week, we’ll have deep base depths on the upper portion of the mountain that will be able to sustain any curveballs thrown by Mother Nature, thus allowing us to focus on expansion once we do open again for the season and remain open.

In the meantime, we’re working on finishing $8.4 million in on-mountain improvements, including the new Learn to Snowboard Magic Carpet at Snowshed, and stringing the haul rope for the new Sky Peak Express.