Vermont’s best-known – some would say only – après-ski and nightlife resort, Killington is also the state’s largest ski area, with 200 trails sprawling across seven mountains. Of the 1,215 acres of skiable terrain, more than half is served by state-of-the-art snow-making, almost guaranteeing a place to ski as long as temperatures drop below freezing at night. Lifts and slope-side facilities match the snow, although what makes Killington so popular is more likely its fabled nightlife. The road leading to the mountain is a gauntlet of bars, clubs, pubs, restaurants and entertainment venues, and on a winter weekend night it may seem as though there are more bodies in the moshpits than were on the slopes during the day. But the area around this central Vermont mecca for the college crowd offers more than skiing, boarding and après-ing. Historic sites abound: President Calvin Coolidge’s birthplace is now a working farm museum, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park is close by and just over the spine of the green mountains is the heart of Vermont’s marble country and a Revolutionary battlefield at Hubbardton. In the summer the resort is filled with condo-owning families who enjoy its four-season sports facilities.
- Lura Seavey for Triporati
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