Blustery, Winter Weather Opens Sugar Mountain Ski Area in North Carolina

SUGAR MOUNTAIN SKI RESORT, NC (Monday, November 21, 2016)…Sugar Mountain Ski Resort is open today for skiing, snowboarding, and ice-skating. The tubing park is scheduled to open as soon as weather permits.

Cold temperatures blew in mid-morning on Saturday, then dropped to a penetratingly cold sixteen degrees overnight and into Sunday creating optimal snowmaking conditions. With forty plus hours of snow machines roaring at an efficient pace, manmade snow covers five slopes including runs from Sugar’s 5,300’ summit to its base, as well as beginner runs.

Today skiers and snowboarders can expect an eight to eighteen-inch base on a manmade and frozen granular surface. The Summit Express is in operation to Sugar’s peak servicing the Northridge, Switchback, Upper and Lower Flying Mile slopes. The beginner’s magic carpet area is also open. The full day session runs from 9:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. The half-day session begins at 12:30 and ends at 4:30 p.m. Night sessions will begin Tuesday.

Visit www.skisugar.com/cams for a real-time look at slope, ice-skating and weather conditions.
The Sugar Mountain ski and snowboard school and the equipment rental shop are both fully operational.

Begin your holiday shopping at the Sugar Mountain Sports Shop, located in the base lodge, or at the Sugar Mountain Annex, located adjacent to the ice-rink. Both feature the finest in winter apparel and footwear, quality gift items, and souvenirs. Plus, new winter items are arriving daily.

The group sales department is eager and happy to accommodate groups of fifteen or more.

For more information, please call 800 SUGAR-MT or view www.skisugar.com for the latest slope and weather report. Historical opening and closing dates as well as recorded annual natural snowfall measurements can be found at www.skisugar.com/sugar-mountain-stats.

See you on the slopes!