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Being the only state entirely
within the Appalachian Mountains, you can bet that
West Virginia
is home to great skiing. Four premier ski resorts – Snowshoe Mountain, Canaan Valley, Winterplace, and Timberline – help provide unparalleled
wintertime fun for downhill skiers, snowboarders, and snowtubing fans.
It's All Downhill
 Whether you like skiing double black-diamond
slopes that seem impossibly steep or gently pitched bunny slopes, challenging alpine
skiing can be found throughout
West Virginia
. If you’re worried about looking like a novice, trained ski instructors
can help remove some of those jitters and get you schussing down the mountain like
an expert in no time. When you just can’t get enough skiing during the
daytime, all four resorts offer night skiing too. Of course even if Mother
Nature hasn’t provided the most ideal conditions for skiing, each of these
resorts is able to make snow to help ensure a more reliable ski season. Now
for those skiers and snowboarders in a hurry or beginners that would prefer not
to start off on a big mountain,
Oglebay Resort has a newly re-opened ski slope complete with a ski lift
and snow machines.
 You Won't Be Board
While skiing is
both thrilling and challenging, there are those that would argue that nothing beats
the pure adrenaline rush of snowboarding down the side of a snow-peaked mountain.
While this extreme sport certainly takes some getting used to, it is no longer solely
in the realm of daredevil teenagers and 20-somethings; older generations have embraced
this sport like never before. If you’d like to give snowboarding a try
but don’t have a board of your own, you can rent everything you need right
from the ski shop. If snowboard tricks and stunts are your thing, Winterplace, Timberline, and Snowshoe Mountain have terrain parks built with
challenging obstacles galore.
Surf's Up,
Mountain-Style
 One of the latest, greatest trends
to hit the ski industry is the Airboard inflatable sled. Riders lie chest
down, as if on a sled, and shift their weight from side to side to carve turns in
the snow by steering with urethane grooves built into the bottom of the sled.
Surfing Airboarders can even come to a controlled stop. That gives them the
ability to snow-surf the same terrain as skiers and snowboarders, although some
resorts have dedicated specific slopes for Airboard riders.
Canaan
Valley Resort State Park. is the only ski resort in the state to
offer this activity, and one of only a few in the country to feature a separate
Airboarding park.
So whether you
are looking for traditional downhill thrills or the latest in snow surfing, you
can find it all waiting for you on the beautiful snow-covered mountains of
West Virginia
.
View the Winter
Getaways Travel Planner, with additional information on ski resorts, packages,
accommodations, and dining to help you plan your next trip.
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