“Been a tough opening to the season so far. Killington is working to get terrain open for the World Cup next week, but terrain expansion and resurfacing efforts appear to be on hold for all public skiing. Just a couple of trails open on the upper mountain with walking required for those with passes or day tickets. Barring an operational about face, Killington isn't the aggressive snow maker it's been known to be. Stay tuned...”

Ski Reporter from UNITED STATES - 19 Nov 2024

“This resort deserves a more current review and another perspective from the very negative last review from 2023. While I share some of the same concerns as that reviewer this resort has a bright future.

I have skied here since i was a kid back in the late 1970's and have owned a cabin near here for 24 years so I have spent a lot of time at the resort and been a season ticket holder most of those years. So here is the skinny from one guy you can take it for what it's worth.

During many of those years the resort seemed to stagnate as ownership hardly spent any money on improvements and was stuck in the 70's or 80s for so long with no high speed lifts an aging lodge with lousy food super long lines for everything and other issues that made things more of a pain in the butt compared to other resorts.

Finally, in the last couple years ownership changed and they have made numerous improvements with more great plans to come like opening up the mountain behind the newly updated Koala chair and eventually extending a lift from the village.

On the downside, since it's the only resort in the area they charge more than many other far superior resorts for lift tickets and season passes. Also, for now its not a big mountain so you can easily get bored skiing the same runs. For me two days here is more than enough. When its cold and they get a lot of fresh snow and they open the lower mountain that makes things much better as that's where the most advanced terrain is but its not open often maybe only 30% of the time. Without the lower mountain on weekends it can still get pretty busy with lines and tons of families with kids so very advanced skiers may not be as happy here dealing with so many novices.

Overall, I do like the mountain and the drive from the Bay Areas is faster and easer that Tahoe but I much prefer the other resorts around Tahoe. If I didn't own a place up there I probably would only come once a year but if they continue to make more improvements and modernize the resort to better compete and give customers a better value for the high prices I would come more often.”

Doug B from UNITED STATES - 19 Nov 2024

“I agree that Timberline is that resort where the lifties are so friendly. Unfortunately, I had a bad experience today. I've been a pass holder for at least 20 years, making it all the way to 70 years old, yahoo, discounted pass. It was more than epic mid November, first time up, when I had difficulty showing my pass that was under my edge of my coat where it was built in by the manufacturer. I've always been able to hold it up to present it. Being the first time up, I forgot the sequence. The scanner didn't like where it was and started to berate me and tell me I should put it on leash or get one of those old school there are those old school snap back pullout pass holders. I had two of those on my visible on my coat, but one was for my squeegee, the other to scrape ice out of my bindings. It kind of put a bad taste in my mouth. Then the second time around same attitude. I told my ski partner I was going to leave, but he talked me out of it. I'm sure glad he did because the 17" of snow really was epic!”

Leo from UNITED STATES - 19 Nov 2024