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Snowshoe Mountain is a ski resort in the eastern United States, located in Snowshoe, West Virginia. [2] The resort has skiable terrain across 244 acres (99 ha) and covers a total area of 11,000 acres (44.5 km 2 ) in the Allegheny Mountains , which are a part of the vast Appalachian Mountain Range .
Total trails Total lifts Avg annual snowfall (in) Adult weekend lift ticket window price (USD) Date statistics updated Ski Bromont: Bromont: Quebec: 1,854 590 1,264 450 141 9 190 $54 December 1, 2019 [1] Apex Mountain Resort: Penticton: British Columbia: 7,197 5,197 2,000 1,112 79 4 236 $65 November 30, 2019 [2] Canyon Ski Area: Red Deer ...
Snowshoe is an unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States, centering on the Snowshoe Mountain ski resort. It is situated in the Allegheny Mountains at a bowl shaped convergence of two high mountain ridges — Cheat and Back Allegheny Mountains — at the head of the Shavers Fork of the Cheat River.
The Purity Spring XC & Snowshoe Reserve features 20 km of scenic, back-country Nordic, and snowshoe trails. The trails wind through the forest surrounding Purity Lake, twisting through tall pines to the adjacent New Hampshire Audubon wildlife sanctuary. Cross-country skis are available in the King Pine Rental and Tune Shop.
Cheat Mountain (Snowshoe Mountain) at Thorny Flat 4,848 ft (1,478 m) and Bald Knob 4,842 ft (1,476 m) are among the more notable peaks in West Virginia. The Blue Ridge Mountains, rising in southern Pennsylvania and there known as South Mountain, attain elevations of about 2,000 ft (600 m) in Pennsylvania.
Bald Knob is one of only four mountain summits in West Virginia that rise above 4,800 feet (1,500 m), the other three being Spruce Knob, Thorny Flat, and an unnamed summit near Snowshoe, WV. The south face of Bald Knob is the site of the headwaters of Leatherbark Run, West Virginia's highest stream.
The Lower Logging Lake Snowshoe Cabin and Boathouse were built in 1933 in Glacier National Park near the southwestern end of Logging Lake. The National Park Service Rustic boathouse stores rangers' canoes for patrolling the lake and their journeys between Upper and Lower Logging Lake patrol cabins.
This route has traditionally been used for a winter-time approach by ski/snowshoe. Historically, a fire tower atop the ridge was staffed by forest workers and they would have been ferried to the site by float plane. Ellis Fire Tower, 2015. The name "Ishpatina" comes from an Ojibwe language word ishpadinaa, meaning "high place/ridge". [4]