Liberty Mountain Resort - Liberty Mountain Resort

Liberty Mountain Resort is a resort located in southern Pennsylvania. During the winter months the resort offers skiing, snowboarding, and snow tubing. The onsite hotel and lodge is open year-round and offers 99 rooms and multiple options for weddings and meetings. During the spring, summer, and fall the 18 hole Carroll Valley Golf Course at Liberty Mountain is open for a round of golf.

Along with two other resorts, Whitetail Ski Resort and Roundtop Mountain Resort, it is owned by Snow Time, Inc.

History

The resort was originally developed in the mid 1960s as a focal point for a major real estate development. The name of the ski mountain and the development was Charnita, named after Charles G. and Anita Rist, the developer and his wife. Charlie Rist hired Dick Brown, who had just designed the neighboring Ski Roundtop the year before, to develop and manage the Charnita ski area. After the Tri-County Citizens Committee efforts "to prevent the continued growth of the Charnita development" in 1970, the development suffered bankruptcy. Snow Time, Inc. purchased the mountain and renamed it Ski Liberty, then Liberty Mountain Resort in the late '90s to be more enticing to snowboarders. In 2003, Snow Time, Inc added the Boulder Ridge Snow Tubing area. In May 2010 Liberty Mountain purchased The Carroll Valley Resort giving Liberty a total of 99 rooms as well as adding two more restaurants (The Tavern on the Green and The Inn) and an 18-hole golf cou rse.

Trails

Liberty Mountain possesses slopes with varying levels of difficulty.The trail names are as follows:

Easier Trails: Nova, Sneaky Pete, Dipsy Doodle, First Class Area, Lower Blue Streak, Snow Cat Alley

More Difficult Trails: Adventure Alley, Upper Heavenly, Lower Heavenly, Whitney's Way, Lower Ultra, Lower Eastwind, Lower Strata, East Side, Sidewinder

Most Difficult Trails: West Side Park, White Lightning, Upper Blue Streak

Extremely Difficult Trails: Upper Ultra, Vertigo Park, Upper Eastwind, Upper Strata

The Half Pipe at Liberty Mountain has since been removed as it was deemed to much work to maintain and cover with snow. The Half Pipe was usually only open for at most a month of the ski season, but some years not even open at all. The area where the Half Pipe was located was filled in and is now the East Side terrain park.

Statistics

• Elevation: Front base 570 ft (170 m), Back base 650 ft (200 m).
• Summit: 1,190 ft (360 m).
• Vertical Drop: Front side 620 ft (190 m), Back side 550 ft (170 m).
• Longest Run: Dipsy Doodle 5,200 ft (1,600 m).
• Number of Trails: 22
• Slope Difficulty: 27% Beginner, 41% intermediate, 14% advanced, 18% expert
• Lifts: 5 Quads, 1 J-bar, 3 carpet lifts
• Rental Equipment: 2,500 shaped Rossignol skis, 441 performance Rossignol and Elan skis, 800 Burton snowboards
• Night Skiing: 100% terrain, 7 nights a week
• Uphill Capacity: 13,400 skiers/hour
• Snowmaking: 100%
• Skiing Season: December to mid-March (weather dependent)
• Lodging: Year-round, 99 room Slopeside/Golfside available hotel

References and notes

External links

• Liberty Mountain Resort website