Open only on weekends and holidays, this cross-country areas has trails in Pocahontas County, perhaps the state's most beautiful and most undeveloped area. Lift tickets are good for the 36 slopes at Snowshoe and the 18 at Silver Creek a mile away. Tubing participants must be 46 inches or taller. The two-mile Salamander Run is the longest ski run in the region. Children 5 and younger ski free.
Skiers can take a run down an electronically timed course and learn just how fast they are.
The longest run is 2,900 feet. Big Boulder also has three kilometers of cross-country trails, with access to Hickory Run State Park trails. Night skiing starts Dec. 26. Reciprocal lift tickets with Jack Frost Mountain, six miles away. The snow tubing slope has been expanded to 16 chutes.