New Hampshire’s Waterville Valley Resort has broken ground on its largest expansion project in 30 years.
The work kicks off the new Green Peak Expansion project, scheduled to open for the 2016/17 Winter Season. This first phase of the project will include the cutting of 10 new trails to provide 45 new acres of skiing and riding and will be serviced by a fixed grip chairlift.
The project was recently approved by Waterville Valley Holdings, which is the fourth company to own the resort but the first to expand the ski area.
“I have been skiing in Waterville Valley since Tom Corcoran developed it as a first class ski area and now with new leadership, the updated master plan is on the road to being fulfilled,” said Jack Sanders, a longtime Waterville Valley skier and attorney for the ownership group. “What is amazing is to see a ski area in New England invest on the heels of the winter we experienced with so little snow.”
Waterville Valley Holdings CEO Chris Sununu said the groundbreaking followed a lot of hard work by resort staff and the U.S. Forest Service.
Skiers can stay up to date with continuing developments at http://www.waterville.com/green-peak-expansion or on http://www.facebook.com/wvresort.
Waterville Valley was designed and planned specifically as a self-contained four-season resort. It features 265 skiable acres with an altitude of 4,004 feet and vertical drop of 2,020 feet, 60 trails, and 11 lifts.
