Stratton turns 50 this winter and it has a few gifts waiting for guests.

This year, expect better access to famous terrain.

Only the locals know how good the steep north facing trees off the Madonna lift are.

There aren't many ski towns on the East Coast where you can actually see the hill from town and vice versa.

The skiing, of course, is as big as ever.

We all know Jay Peak as a hardcore East Coast powder skier's mountain.

For Right Coasters looking for mechanized backcountry, there's Sugarbush's April Cabin Cat—the only cat-skiing operation in New England.

Living the Spring multi-sport life on that side of the Mississippi.

How one rural community found vitality in local food. An excerpt from the book of the same title.

And that has made all the difference.