It’s been nearly a month since the Leelanau Conservancy announced it was deep into a quiet fundraising campaign to purchase the old Sugar Loaf ski area in Northern Michigan. The goal: Reshape this ...

Sometimes, things don’t work out. The history of skiing in North America is bespeckled with false starts, maintenance errors, and, worst of all, outright ski area closures. Throughout ski country, ...

This story was originally produced by the Concord Monitor. NHPR is republishing it in partnership with the Granite State News Collaborative. It’s an interesting time for Ragged Mountain Resort in ...

There's a new plan to reopen Sugar Loaf, a long-shuttered ski resort near Traverse City, as a public space. It is not the first time Michiganders have heard this sort of talk. And there's a big catch: ...

Within a 15-minute drive of downtown Missoula, Montana, Marshall Mountain once served a thriving community of local skiers before its closure in 2002. In the 1970s, University of Montana students ...