The Best Family Ski Resorts Around Kingston

If you're looking to take a ski vacation this winter and you want to bring the entire family, you might want to consider heading to the town of Kingston, New York, and taking a few runs in the various ski areas that dot the Catskill Mountains. Kingston is close in to several family ski resorts that offer a well-rounded taste of the Catskill ski experience.

Sawkill Family Ski Center

If you have a family full of advanced to expert skiers, Sawkill Family Ski Center might leave you a little flat. Located 3 miles from Kingston, the center is designed to accommodate snowboarders with a large terrain park. They also have facilities, rentals and instruction for beginning skiers and an area that you can go tubing. Sawkill Family Ski Center's season runs from December to March, when the temperatures allow them to make snow.

Sawkill Family Ski Center
167 Hill Rd Kingston, NY 12401
(845) 336-6977
sawkillski.com

Belleayre Mountain

Belleayre Mountain sits 7 miles from the town of Kingston off of State Route 28. The ski area offers 47 trails with glades and a snowboard park. It also has seven lifts along with a recently added high-speed quad to take you up the 1,400 vertical feet to the top of the mountain. Much of the top of the mountain consists of black diamond and double black diamond runs but there are some outlet runs off to the side that range from blue to green. Once you're halfway down, the majority of the lower mountain consists of green cruiser runs. Besides downhill skiing, the resort also boasts more than 9 miles of cross-country trails. The resort is open from mid-November until April, weather permitting.

Belleayre Mountain
181 Galli Curci Road
Highmount, NY 12441
(800) 942-6904
belleayre.com

Plattekill Mountain

Plattekill Mountain, just 10 miles outside of Kingston, promotes their place in the Catskills as a family-oriented mountain. The mountain is family-owned and operated and that love of family comes through in the ski experience. The ski area has the terrain to satisfy all experience levels with nice, slow green cruisers and some of the steepest double black diamonds in the area. Plattekill Mountain is home to 1,100 feet of vertical drop, three lifts that take you to 35 trails. It also claims around 200 inches of snow each year, so it has a good base to work with when making snow.

Plattekill Mountain
469 Plattekill Mountain Road
Roxbury, NY 12474
(607) 326-3500
plattekill.com

Article Written By Patrick Cameron

Patrick Cameron is a freelance writer with 10 years of diverse experience in consumer goods branding, promotions and retail communications. He works out of his home in Denver, Colo. He received his Bachelor of Arts in mass communication from the University of Minnesota.

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