Winter Fun

June 06. 2011 4:22PM

Granite Gorge

341 Route 9
Keene/Roxbury
Phone: 603-358-5000

Just five miles east of downtown Keene, on Route 9, Pinnacle Mountain at Granite Gorge is easy to find. The Pinnacle Express double chairlift is now open, providing top-to-bottom skiing on expanded terrain. The Gorge offers state-of-the-art snowmaking and grooming services. The base lodge offers concessions. Pinnacle Mountain offers great location, protection from the wind, and a north face that holds snow. In addition to alpine skiing and snowboarding trails, there is a terrain park, and a tubing park with a 2.5 minute Wondercarpet lift that leads to the 600' Granite Gorge Tubing Park. They now have the East Coast's only bag jump for freestyle skiers throughout New England and have opened a new Lodge with a full kitchen and the new Lookout Lounge. Now known worldwide for its signature VW bus, the GG Terrain Park crew will be building exciting challenges on their top to bottom terrain parks. Granite Gorge has incredible natural snowmaking for superior top-to-bottom snow and grooming conditions.

Alpine Skiing

Vertical Drop	Skiable Terrain	# of Trails	Novice	Intermediate	Expert	Glades	# of Lifts
525 ft.	55 acres	20	30%	40%	30%	No	4
Services: Mountainside lodging, night skiing, snowtubing, terrain park, nordic trails access.

Snowboard Park

Halfpipe	1/4 Pipe	Terrain Park	Information
No	No	Yes	Includes more difficult "Jumper" and easier "Bunny Buster" terrain parks with BlueJay rails, fun boxes, jumps, etc.

Snowtubing

Runs	Lifts	Information
Multiple	1	Ride the Wondercarpet Lift, only a 2.5 min ride, to ENJOY SUPERIOR TUBING in the 950' Granite Gorge Tubing Park. New two-person tubes.

Cross Country Skiing

The trails date back decades and have been reconstructed with the latest technology for superior conditions. Group XC lessons and clinics, and rentals are available. Granite Gorge is known as a "cold hollow", which is great for snow conditions.