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Old 01-09-2010, 04:04 PM   #5
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About 35 miles from the big Meredith intersection, in the town of Waterville Valley, I stumbled across a FREE sledding hill while cross country skiing. Located in Waterville Valley just beyond the little golf course and the 18 tennis courts is the old Snow's Mountain ski area. It has a chairlift which is totally closed in the winter and families, kids and dogs use the bottom of what used to be the main slope for sledding. www.nelsap.org/nh/waterville.html Believe this old ski area is on land owned by the big WV ski area that's located about two miles away.

The photography shot taken from two miles out & up, from the summit of the big ski area, sort of shows the lower wide, gradual slope area that gets used by sledders.

When I was there today, there was about ten kids & adults, & one black labrador dog, on saucers and plastic slidies, who would walk maybe 100 yards or less up the old main ski slope. It's a wide, exhibition, in front of the old lodge type of a slope with natural snowfall.....no grooming...no manufactored snow....just what falls from the sky snow...plus it faces west and gets blasted with the late afternoon winter sun.

You can park your car in the large dirt parking lot just past the new Waterville Academy classroom building on the far side of the chair lift and make the brief walk back to the sledding slope. While the chairlift is closed in the winter, it is open occasionally in the summer for mountain bikers.
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Something else www.watervillevalley.org/wvnh_icearena.html to do for 5-bucks in Waterville Valley inside their refrigerated & heated ice arena.
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Saturday night fireworks

Every Saturday 7:30-pm in January & February: about 15 minutes of professionally orchestrated pyrotechnics, somewhat upclose & personal, above Corcoran's Pond, just outside the Ice Arena.

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Cross country skiing 'no fee zones'

Two small sections within the Waterville Valley cross country skiing system have been designated 'no fee zones' by the property owner: the US Forest Service-White Mountain National Forest for the permittee, the Waterville Valley ski operator.

If you go to the very north end of town, to the Depot Camp parking lot, which requires a WMNF parking sticker; the two cross country skiing no fee zones: about 3/4 mile of the Tripoli Rd, and 2.8 miles of the Livermore Rd, both start from the Depot Camp parking lot.

The Forest Service has a three-section info kiosk-bulletin board at the corner of the parking lot next to the parking fee tube, and the entrance to the Livermore Rd - trail. It has a large trail map that shows the two no fee zones shaded in light blue if you have any questions.

Otherwise, using the Waterville Valley cross country ski trails costs about $16/day.
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