mt. pisgah ski center

Operated by the Village of Saranac Lake in the Adirondack Mountains, this gem of a ski center features wide open trails ranging in difficulty from easy to challenging. Not for the Black-Diamond-only skier, this hill helps you get to that point and has helped local skiers hone their skills till they graduate to near-by Whiteface Mountain. A T-bar (recently renovated) pulls pairs up the hill. Locals call one side "Buttermilk" and the other "Suicide" and in the woods there are a few choices of glade trails.High School races are held on Suicide (as are some open-to-all-ages weekend races). Buttermilk is wide and gently sloping and perfect for learners.A few park features are present for aspiring "New Schoolers".Also available for separate pricing is hour-long Tubing. A separate lift drags you up on your tube for a thrilling ride down to be repeated as many times as you can in an hour.Anchoring all this is a large windowed sun-facing ski lodge featuring huge stone fireplace and freshly prepared food concession items that rival (or exceed?) those you can find elsewhere in town! Definitely do not pack a lunch to this place!Ski rentals are not available on-site but are in near-by Lake Placid and Plattsburgh.Snow shoe trails, newly carved Mountain bike trails, and cross-country ski connections to Dewey Mountain are in various states of completion.For the wheeled mobility crowd, a lovely pond surrounded by paved walking trails lies just below the lodge here.