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Skiing in the US is a multi-billion dollar industry of growing popularity, with over 11 million recreational snow sports participants in the winter of 2022–23. [8] Annual reported totals of the skiing population vary somewhat with the quality and length of the ski season, which averages 106 days. Most popular are the regions of the Rocky ...
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Winter sports or winter activities are competitive sports or non-competitive recreational activities which are played on snow or ice. [1] Most are variations of skiing , ice skating and sledding . Traditionally, such games were only played in cold areas during winter , but artificial snow and artificial ice allow more flexibility.
The number of snow ski areas and resorts in the United States peaked in the late 1960s at around 1000 areas. [1] Since then many small, rope-tow only areas have closed or consolidated. [ 2 ] The following listing accounts for US ski areas that are currently operational.
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Articles about sports that depend on winter features like ice or snow (whether natural or artificial). The main article for this category is Winter sports . Subcategories
The following is a list of major snow and ice events in the United States that have caused noteworthy damage and destruction in their wake. The categories presented below are not used to measure the strength of a storm, but are rather indicators of how severely the snowfall affected the population in the storm's path.