New full-service slopeside hotel; lots of acres; a great skier's mountain with an old-fashioned Vermont feel.

Offers an impressive variety of ski-in/ski-out accommodations and hotels, from luxury hotel suites to fully-equipped condos and single family residences; 90 trails plus recently-opened new half-pipe; the architects' rendering of old Quebec is a real charmer, and alone worth the trip; as for nightlife, the Quebecois invented the concept of party.

World-class dining, shopping, and outdoor activities; 485 acres of skiing and an average 333 inches of snow annually; the town is full of New England charm.

Provides the only lift-serviced, above-treeline skiing in the East; first-rate staff; two of the primary attractions are the Robert Trent Jones Jr. golf course, consistently mentioned among the best in New England, and its golf school; another lure is 50-plus miles of mountain biking trails that lace the woods around the resort.

Whiteface has the biggest vertical east of Colorado-3,166 ft; called the "Classis American Ski Town"; ranks #1 in off-hill activities; Olympic bobsled track; at the top, the 1949 Porcupine Lodge has been refurbished as a warming hut.