A blast of winter weather over the last few days has led to the earliest opening of North Carolina’s ski season since before the COVID-19 pandemic.

It marks the ski area’s earliest opening since 2019, when Sugar Mountain started the season on November 9. Sugar Mountain ...

Sugar Mountain is North Carolina's largest ski area. Snow brought in by the recent cold front allowed for a slightly early ...

The Beech Mountain Ski Resort is set to open on Nov. 22 for the 2025-26 ski season, weather permitting. Sugar Mountain had ...

Behind a cold front, winds in the low levels are out of the northwest, but there’s also typically just enough remaining ...

The Banner Elk website names Sugar Mountain as North Carolina's largest ski area, with 125 acres of skiable terrain, 20 ...

Beech Mountain Ski Resort opens Friday, Nov. 29 for the 2024-25 ski season. On Oct. 8, the resort announced its planned opening date for the season even though parts of western North Carolina had ...

Sugar Mountain, the ski area with the most vertical drop in North Carolina, will open on November 11, 2025. It is the ...

A cold front moving into North Carolina early next week is expected to bring the first taste of winter to the mountains.

Cataloochee—North Carolina’s first established ski area—is getting a new chairlift. Over the weekend, Cataloochee shared plans to replace its Omigosh double chairlift with a Doppelmayr quad chairlift.