California and Oregon: Top Picks for Best Ski Vacations

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Are you and your friends raring to indulge yourselves in the best ski vacations on a paradise of snow? Wanting to go have that great skiing experience you and your peers have been longing for? Is this the first ski trip that you will be having? Make everything excitingly fun and utterly memorable by checking on some of the most-frequented ski in the USA.

Explore America’s wide-range of skiing opportunities as it offers one of the best skiing experiences any ski enthusiasts and tourists can possibly have. Skiers can choose from any ski destinations that are located from the different states particularly in the West Coast area, from California to Alaska. The Lake Tahoe region (which is famous for its blizzards) between California and Nevada is the most popular choice for skiing experience. One can hop from one resort to another as there are a total of nine resorts littered on the different areas near the famous lake, the largest of which is the Heavenly Water Resort in Stateline, Nevada. The next largest is located in Tahoe City, the Squaw Valley and you may take plenty of pictures here since this specific resort was the venue for the 1960 Winter Olympics. The other resorts that are recommendable to try as well is Kirkwood Mountain Resort (it has the biggest volume of snow than any other resorts in Tahoe), Alpine Meadows
(only a few miles off Squaw Valley), Mount Rose Ski Resort (on Slide Mountain, north-east of Lake Tahoe), Diamond Peak (located in Incline Peak, Nevada) and Donner Ski Ranch (on Donner Pass in the northern Sierra Nevada).

Another popular ski destination on the West Coat area is Oregon. There are a dozen ski resorts here namely: Timberline Lodge (the only one of its kind in the whole of North America which is open all months of the year), Mt. Bachelor (one of the largest and a venue for annual international competitions), Hoodoo Ski Area (perfect for night skiing), Mt. Ashland (boasts of an impressive terrain park and 200-acre of skiing where the runs challenge even the experienced skier), Cooper Spur (ideal for first timers and for those who want to improve on their skiing competency as 80% of its terrain is suitable as learning-training environment), Mt. Hood Skibowl (it has 34 lighted runs and is the largest night ski area in America), Spout Springs (has a maximum run length of two miles), Cat Ski Mt. Bailey (its run length reaches up to three miles), Ski Anthony Lakes (compared to any other ski areas in Oregon, this ski haven is renowned for having the highest base elevation—7,100 feet)
, Mt. Hood Meadows (like Spout Springs, it has a maximum run length of three miles and has 2,150 aces of terrain and great for backcountry skiing), Willamette Pass (there are plenty of lodges here so this one’s ideal for those who ski with their family, it has also 29 runs and eight black diamond runs) and Warner Canyon (for those who crave for dry powder snow).
Enjoy the snow!

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