this is a great ski area, run well--in a winter with very little natural snow, wintergreen turned our a great product--as their slogan says-every day is a great ski day
We recently visited Wintergreen Ski Resort. Beautiful Mountain Views and Sunrises. The room was so clean and very comfortable. A great retreat for a special occasion! We enjoyed wine tasting tours and dinner / music nearby. The resort itself needs to work on the restaurant. The food quality should match the price. Other than that we really enjoyed our visit.
Excellent accommodations and friendly, helpful staff. Chose a bad weather weekend, but had a ball anyway!
Reserve a ticket online before you go as they may be sold out. Hour and a half on tubing is just right. They set it up well and limiting the number of tubers ensures that there are no lines. Very fast and very fun. Go, but get your tickets before you get to the mountain.
Although the ski conditions were not ideal due to the warm and rainy weather, the service and employees made the trip. The grounds were well kept, lines were minimal, food was good ext ext. What made stood out to my family was the friendly employees. Congrats on the training of all the foreign workers. Argentina, Jamaica, Chile were among a few that were represented. Tubing was a blast too!!! Thanks, and we will be back!!!
Most of my skiing experience is from California, Colorado, and Europe, so my expectations weren't too high for Wintergreen. I was pleasantly surprised by the well maintained slopes. The snow, almost all of it man-made, was sufficient, and usually didn't get too slushy until later in the day. The slopes are short, and the lines get long on the weekends (their main lift typically had a 20 minute wait on weekend afternoons), but it has enough room to teach people to ski for the first time. Get away from the main hill if you can to avoid the largest crowds and the beginning skiers who are just learning skiing etiquette.The biggest detractor is the management of the place. Everyone seems to be specialized in their own little area, with no knowledge of the rest of the park. Lift ticket sales know very little about ski lessons or rentals and the same in return. There are two places for kids to get lessons, but they know very little about what the other offers, despite working for the same resort. Packages for lift-rental-lessons aren't really clearly laid out. If you sift through all of their literature, you can eventually figure it all out, but it felt like I was dealing with an airline pricing structure. It sure would be nice if their management fixed this, so it was a little easier on the guest.
Having grown up in the Northeast and living in the Northwest the skiing in Virginia just simply does not compare but of the places we have skied in Virginia - this is our favorite. Wish the six-person chairlift wasn't always so crowded or that they had a couple more easy trails with additional chair lift. My six year old is learning to ski - unless you are taking a lesson you can not use the magic carpet(conveyor belt). So this means there are a lot of little kids who are just learning how to ski getting on, off and falling off the chair lifts which means they stop it to allow them to clear the chairlift area. Wish they would let little kids use the magic carpet to at least get used to skiing before they head off down the steeper easy slopes. Café at the base of six person lift is great to take a break at. Ample outdoor seating and they usually have a local beer there on tap.Since we live a couple of hours away - we will be back.
Wintergreen is a decent place to keep up with your slope skills. Once you've been somewhere really good, however, it's going to feel like pretty small potatoes. Being so far south, they can't make snow as long as many as other resorts, but they do a decent job of getting the majority of the runs open by early January at the latest, even without natural snowfall. We live about 2 hours away, and this is our closest slope; it gets lots of skiiers from around VA, NC, the DC area, etc.
It's not the best but it's close. The slopes are short, it can get crowded, and it is a little costly but I always have fun. The expert slopes are usually your best bet, not too hard and much less crowded.
Loved everything about it view,food and condos.I took ski lessons had a great instructor and conquered the bunny slope before the weekend was over.