![]() “I like that not everybody can hop on and off the Interstate and be here in a flash.”Īnd Sunday River management recognizes the collective attitude. “The longer trip keeps the yahoos and pretenders away,” said John Egan of Weymouth, Mass., who has been coming to Sunday River since the 1980s. The resort is roughly 400 miles from Manhattan and 50 backcountry miles from the nearest highway, regardless of your approach. There’s no getting around it, unless you already live in Maine moose country, getting to Sunday River, near the mountain town of Bethel, is going to take some perseverance. There are, of course, some very good reasons why Sunday River is a bit off the radar, recording 525,000 skier visits in an average winter - a respectable total but only half the number that regularly visit Killington. For hard-core snow sliders, and even families who take one or two ski trips each year, there can be a sameness to annual winter journeys because people reflexively flock to the same familiar ski areas.īut if you have an adventurer’s spirit, or want to be surprised, now might be a good time to try New England’s “other” snow sports state: Maine. ![]() Perhaps most significant, Sunday River offers a distinctive Maine mountain experience that is subtly different from skiing or riding in the ski capitals of Vermont, New Hampshire or New York. It is the unhurried, somewhat untried giant waiting to be fully discovered 50 years after it opened. ![]() It is a sprawling mountain getaway with few crowds. Even people in Vermont, upstate New York or Southern New England don’t often venture to Sunday River. Sunday River is the behemoth of the Eastern ski industry that only Boston-area skiers seem to know about. With 668 skiable acres, it is the Northeast’s second-biggest resort. If you asked people leaving a ski store in the metropolitan New York area this question, as I recently did, it would be a very long time before someone mentions Sunday River, the vast resort of eight peaks in central Maine. WHAT’S the largest ski resort in the Northeast? Killington, right? Everybody knows that.īut what’s the second biggest? Stowe? Whiteface? Okemo?
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