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Shop In RI Selects: Vail, Colorado as the #1 Skiing Destination in the United States.

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This Colorado mountain town will make you feel like you’re skiing in the French Alps. Standing in front of The Red Lion, an iconic bar in the heart of Vail Village, it may seem like Vail, Colorado is a fairly small town with just a few short blocks of posh eateries, après-ski haunts, and mountainside hotels. But strap on your ski (or snowboard) boots, walk a few steps from The Red Lion to Gondola One, and in 10 minutes, you’ll stand amid no fewer than 5,317 skiable acres across Vail Ski Resort. And that’s when you’ll realize it: This town isn’t so small after all. With 195 trails and 31 chairlifts, Vail is, quite frankly, enormous. That’s what you get when you ski the West; while Killington, Vermont has 1,977 skiable acres, Quebec’s Mont Tremblant has 754 acres of terrain, Vail has more than 3,000 just on the back bowls of the mountain. The Western ski mountains, above all else, are known for sheer expanse (think: Park City, which boasts 7,300 acres). And for shredders who crave trail variety and alpine views, (mountain) size matters.

Sugarbush is an overlooked gem among its peers, with many skiers heading to nearby Killington, Stowe, or Mad River Glen over this double mountain resort. So why shouldn’t you do the same? To put it simply, Sugarbush offers practically everything that those more popular ski areas boast, minus the crowds. So if you fancy schussing down a freshly groomed slope without queuing for a lift or dodging snowploughers this could be just the place for you!

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The 189 inches of average annual snowfall makes the primarily intermediate and advanced trails exceptionally inviting. That said, the most compelling reason to visit Vail is not the powder or the terrain, although both are spectacular. It’s not even the trendy hotels or incredible après-ski fare (I went to Root & Flower twice in four days). It’s this: Vail is perhaps the closest you can get to a true European ski experience without flying across the Atlantic.

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Terrain: The resort is made up of two interconnected mountains, Lincoln Peak, where the majority of trails are, and Mount Ellen. Other lower peaks include Castle Rock, Gadd Peak and North Lynx. For the type of gnarly terrain you would expect from Mad River Glen, just hop aboard the Castle Rock Double chair to Castle Rock. From the top at 3,812 ft, you’ll have the steep double black chutes of Lift Line and Rumble to get stuck into. If clocking up maximum vertical drop is more your thing then you’ll find the slopes here laid out much better for top-to-bottom shredding than at Killington. Even if you ski all 111 trails here, there’s also 2,000 ac of backcountry to explore in the Slide Brook Basin area!

service in 2018 when Great Lakes Airlines, which served it, filed for bankruptcy.

If you're of a certain relatively youthful age, you may not know that prior to 1978, airlines were regulated. As Alana Semuels recaps in a lengthy piece for Time, until that point the government "saw airlines as an essential service, kind of like the post office." The Civil Aeronautics Board was the federal agency that determined the routes airlines had to fly and the fares they could charge, and the idea behind deregulation was that competition would increase and air travel would get even cheaper. The opposite has come to pass, and Semuels argues that America's small cities are among the biggest victims. She points to the situation in Cheyenne, Wyoming, which lost commercial air

Town: If all that wasn’t enough, Sugarbush is generally a notch cheaper than pricey Stowe, but not at the sacrifice of luxury. For lavish lodgings, look no further than Lincoln Peak Village. For these reasons and more, when it comes to the most practical ski destination in Vermont, Sugarbush is a fantasic choice for a winter weekend getaway!

The 96,000-person metro area had two options: Go without, or woo an airline with what's known as a "minimum revenue guarantee." It went with the latter and ended up inking a deal with SkyWest that will see it pay the airline $2.5 million this year to service the airport. "The alternative is bleak," Semuels writes, noting that since 2019, 14 US airports were dropped by all commercial providers; a study found American, Delta, and United have ended flights to a combined 68 cities since April 2020. Forking over millions to airlines that make billions "may seem irrational on its face," but the reality is that the blow to business, tourism, and population growth that can result is a very real concern. As one industry expert puts it, "Air service is one of the most critical economic development tools in the tool chest."

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