Wednesday, September 2, 2020, NewEnglandSkiIndustry.com
With the ski season about a couple of months away, New England ski areas are beginning to reveal tentative operating plans for COVID-19.
Maine
Hermon Mountain - Not selling season passes until operational impacts announced.
Sugarloaf - Face masks required indoors/outdoors when physical distancing not possible, season pass sales suspended after October 12, possible lodge capacity limits.
Sunday River - Face masks required indoors, season pass sales suspended after October 12.
Massachusetts
Berkshire East - Face masks required indoors/outdoors when physical distancing not possible, possible reduction in skier services and/or movement to outdoors.
Blandford - Closed.
Catamount - Face masks required indoors/outdoors when physical distancing not possible, possible reduction in skier services and/or movement to outdoors.
Wachusett - Possible reservation-only, four-session-day with capacity limits and limit of one daily session per person (including season passholders), possible lodge capacity limits.
New Hampshire
Attitash - Face masks required indoors/outdoors, reservations required (including season passholders), no day ticket sales prior to December 8, cash not accepted, lodge capacity limits.
Bretton Woods - Possible pre-purchase requirement.
Crotched - Face masks required indoors/outdoors, reservations required (including season passholders), no day ticket sales prior to December 8, cash not accepted, lodge capacity limits.
King Pine - Possible reservation requirement (including season passholders), possible lodge capacity limits.
Loon - Face masks required, day ticket limits (pre-purchase only), season passes not currently on sale, possible lodge capacity limits.
Mt. Sunapee - Face masks required indoors/outdoors, reservations required (including season passholders), no day ticket sales prior to December 8, cash not accepted, lodge capacity limits.
Waterville Valley - Face masks required indoors/outdoors when physical distancing not possible, reservations for day tickets, possible lodge capacity limits.
Wildcat - Face masks required indoors/outdoors, reservations required (including season passholders), no day ticket sales prior to December 8, cash not accepted, lodge capacity limits.
Rhode Island
Yawgoo Valley - Capacity limits.
Vermont
Bolton Valley - Face masks required indoors and outdoors (except when skiing), possible lodge capacity limits.
Mad River Glen - Face masks required indoors and outdoors (when physical distancing not possible), possible day ticket limits.
Magic - Possible reservation requirement, capacity limitations, lodge capacity limits.
Okemo - Face masks required indoors/outdoors, reservations required (including season passholders), no day ticket sales prior to December 8, cash not accepted, lodge capacity limits.
Smugglers Notch - Face masks required indoors and outdoors (except when skiing), lodge capacity limits.
Mt. Snow - Face masks required indoors/outdoors, reservations required (including season passholders), no day ticket sales prior to December 8, cash not accepted, lodge capacity limits.
Stowe - Face masks required indoors/outdoors, reservations required (including season passholders), no day ticket sales prior to December 8, cash not accepted, lodge capacity limits.
Suicide Six - Face masks required indoor/outdoors, no Monday or Tuesday operations, possible capacity restrictions, possible lodge capacity limits.
