Closest ski resort to florida

i'd say north carolina. I haven't really heard much about the skiing there, but i know there is some. And West Virginia has some skiing. Did you move to Florida or something.
 
North Carolina is the closest decent skiing, farther north you have Snowshoe WV and Massanutten.

The closest to Florida however, is Cloudmont Alabama www.cloudmont.com

I'm not sure if the place is still in operation however. If you live in florida and want to ski look for cheap flights to San Francisco, Sacramento, Utah, Denver, Reno.. its probably cheaper to fly then to drive to your nearest area.
 
There was a ski resort in Georgia but according to their website it's permanently closed. http://www.skyvalley.com/sky04.html

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We have two one-thousand foot, beginner-intermediate slopes. Two "pony lifts" take skiers to the top of the slopes that have an elevation of 1,800 feet and a vertical rise of 150 feet

ahahahhaha......i hear northern georgia gets descent snow tho in the appalachians
 
Your best bet is in north carolina. Cataloochee is really close and is south of the smokies. Cataloochee has nothing really steep. their park is ok, but if you are driving I guess 8 hours more or less, you might as well just drive to boone. In Boone, you have appalachian, which is the ebst for park. They had a really good 45 footer last year and they have tons of rails. Check out www.appterrainpark.com You also have sugar mountain, which I personally don't like because there park sucks and the people there can be assholes. It has a 1200 vert and 38 degree steeps. Its the largest and worth a trip. Hawksnest is also good. It is very small, has a decent park(2nd best in NC behind App), it is uncrowded and cheap. Beech is the second biggest I believe but it has nothing steep and is crowded. I wouldn't go there.

Also, don't go to wolf laurel. that place sucks unless you hit it perfectly when there a huge dump(2-3yrs ago, they had 2+feet overnight, and it was sick, cause they opened up some steep trails that never get opened cause of snow).

Don't bother with sapphire valley. It's 150 feet tall and 1 trail. don't bother with cloudmont either. sky Valley and scaly mountain are closed too. Sky Valley would actually be sick if they had a park and were open. It's a good little resort.

Bristolrider, the Northern GA mountains only get around 12-maybe 24 incehs of snow a year. But the North Carolina Moutnains recieve around 80 inches each year. roan Mountain at 6285feet tall gets 100 inches each year.

so skier27 I think, whoever made this thread, message me if you want to know more about skiing down here or just to talk. tell me when your coming up so we can ski together. where in florida do you live?
 
i read some book of this guy hiking the app trail starting in georgia and in march there was like a 2ft dump. 6,285 is pretty damn tall too. 100in a year is def good for so far south
 
I was on the blue ridge parkway in north carolina and found snow at one point, and it was the beginning of october. North carolina has the highest mountains on the east coast, so on occasion they do get dumped on.
 
That might have been in 93 when there was a huge storm that came through. atlanta only got a foot, while north georgia got 2-3 feet. the NC mountains got 3-4 feet of snow. A bunch of people got trapped out there since it was march and people were starting to go hiking. A bunch of people died and there were drifts over 6 feet high I think. Pretty sick(other than people dying). I wished I skied back then.
 
floridas got fucking long ass raisl everywhere. i was thinkin how amazing it woudl be to ski some of that shit
 
That's because it's all old retired people, who need handrails to support them. I'm serious... i bet that's why. and yeah, just step onto lots of urbans, and look silly.
 
I remember that storm, I was at Massanutten, VA and 8 years old. I skied for the whole week with my family, as we got 3 feet of snow. I just stayed on the easy trails, wish I could have skied the pow.
 
look at the pics and stuff, some of the kids through down it looks like.

can u ski in oklahoma or nebraska or LA?
 
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