Have been to White Grass many times. It is the best place I have found to cross country ski. I don't telemark ski but I'm sure that's fine too. White Grass offers so many trails from flat to hills....whatever suits you. People are friendly and they have a great cafe with food and booze. Friendly place and very affordable. If you don't have your own gear you can rent it all there. As many times as I've been there I still haven't hit all the trails as there are so many of them!!
I went to White Grass specifically to learn to Cross Country Ski because I hurt myself trying to learn the ski a little, fall, get up and ski some more approach. The staff was very friendly and knowledgeable. They not only got me up and moving on skis they also got my wife who had no interest in skiing up and going and she was surprised by how much she enjoyed it.
Great skiing, great food, great people! Love White Grass.Went here for my second trip (first trip was in 2009) with my boyfriend this winter and enjoyed a fun day of free lessons on Winter Trails Day and had delicious homemade chili afterwards. Love cross country skiing here in the woods, it's beautiful! The staff and guests are all happy - it's just a happy place!
To put it simply....This is one of the best places to cross country ski period. The gear shop has all you need and the café has some of the best food anywhere. The staff is friendly and very helpful. Go there and experience life as it is meant to be.
Second time I've been at Whitegrass, about the 4th time for my wife. We love it (when there's snow!). The ski center/cafe is about as low key and relaxed as you can find anywhere. We skied midweek so were not there when the hundreds of others crowded the lodge area. The cross country trails are meticulously groomed and the views are beautiful to behold in midwinter, even when the temperatures were -10. If we lived closer, we'd be regulars here.
Wondeful place. We keep going back.My experience has always been that there is darn little, effectively no cell service up there, and it has to stay that way because of a nearby research center, that needs the airspace to be cell phone free.Same problem for businesses along hwy 32 nearby.Let me know if that's changed.We use Verizon.
I hadn't been on skis in 25+ years, and hardly knew what I was doing then. My son had never been on skis. Plus, we're from Florida... We don't see much snow! Everyone was friendly and helpful, whether they were staff or just local skiers. We were only there for a few hours at the very end of the season, and we didn't really know what we were doing yet, so we never really got out of sight of the parking lot, but we found plenty of places we could ski as much as we wanted. Oh, and the cafe is both reasonably priced and good, too!
x-c skiing and snowshoeing is excellent with dinner fri and saturday nites with live band playing everything from bluegrass to rock; food is organic and the center has published 2 wonderful cookbooks for sale- access to dolly sods wilderness from the white grass area
Great backcountry style XC skiing to be had at Whitegrass. Lodge and cafe are just the right vibe of lowkey funkiness filled with smiling employees and skiers alike. Skip the lift-served skiing and go exploring at Whitegrass this winter, you won't be disappointed.
This place is made out of pure love of skiing. The place deals with skiing the way it was invented in the Nordic countries, as a way of moving from one place to another on the snow. It reminds me of how I learnt to ski in Norway many years ago on skis that were a hybrid between telemark and cross country skis. No ski lifts, but the ability to hike up and to go downhill as much as you want. The place is truly exceptional and unique. The food is really home made and the staff is knowledgable and always helpful. The place is also nice for kids, as they can play as much as they want in the hills.