The New Jay Peak, Vermont

Jay Peak, Vermont has always been the closest resort to Canada for skiing. Known for its aerial tram, fresh oven pizza, and unusually large dumps of snow for  the east. A diverse mountain, previously owned by the St. Saveur group from Montreal. It was famous for accepting Canadian currency at par, and the Jet Runs for bump skiers.

This month I returned to this mountain for the first time in 10 years. I was shocked to see the new large  Jay Hotel, with first class rooms and facilities. Attached to it is the new $400,000,000.00 indoor water park, with its indoor surfing, outdoor hot tubs, and a variety of rides such as lazy river, and roller coasters. It has a large deck patio bar overlooking the water park and a surf shop.

Jay appears to have taken the best of both, and now offers great skiing, and now indoor surfing and water adventures. The hot tubs were filled with beautiful young people from all over the east, and everyone was in such good spirits after a day on the slopes.

The slopes were surprisingly well maintained, considering it rained for 2 days and then froze before we arrived. The groomers were out and we had the pleasure of skiing fresh corduroy for a couple of days. The runs that were not artificially snow covered were in  dire straights.

The scoop about Jay is that it is a wonderful new development based on a traditionally good size mountain with lots of challenge, tree skiing, steep and bumps, and now with great restaurants, bars and surfing.

Definitely worth exploring,

Keep Skiing,


The Adventure Guy