
With a 1,000 feet vertical drop and some of the steepest trails in Pennsylvania, it is a popular choice for expert skiers.

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The mountain has a vertical drop of 1,000 feet (300 m), tied for third-highest in Pennsylvania. Montage Mountain rises from a base elevation of 960 feet (290 m) to a peak elevation of 1,960 feet (600 m). White Lightning is the signature slope of Montage Mountain. Expert trails (double-black diamond) are Smoke, Boomer and White Lightning. Advanced trails (black diamond) are Lower Fast Track, Lower Runaway, Rattler, and Cannonball. Intermediate trails (blue) are Spike, Switch, Whistler, Upper Runaway, Upper Fast Track, Snake, Nordic, Sidewinder, and the Glades. Montage also has a gladed ski trail.īeginner trails (green) are the Learning Area, Limited (the bunny slope), Runaround, Easy Street, Highball, and Mainline. Montage Mountain has two terrain parks with jumps, rails, and features ranging from beginner to expert. This advanced area is locally known as North Face it features the steepest skiing in Pennsylvania. Below the lodge are advanced and expert slopes. Above the lodge are beginner and intermediate slopes.
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It has a mid-mountain lodge with a full service bar and restaurant open to the public during open seasons. Montage Mountain has 27 ski and snowboard trails, including White Lightning, the 2nd steepest trail in the Eastern United States. North Face is served by a fixed-grip quad chairlift. A third double-black-diamond trail, White Lightning, was added in the late 1990s. North Face featured one black diamond trail (Cannonball) and two double-black diamond trails (Smoke and Boomer). An experts-only North Face complex was opened in 1987. Montage opened to the public in 1984 with seven trails and three fixed-grip triple chairlifts. The original name, Montage Mountain, was restored in May 2013 when the area was sold to real estate company Jefferson-Werner for $5.1 million. National Penn Bank purchased the property at auction for $4.6 million in March 2013. Sno Mountain, LP filed a Chapter 11 petition for bankruptcy in 2012, claiming upwards of $24 million in debt. In 2006, Lackawanna County sold the ski area to Sno Mountain, LP, a Philadelphia-based investment group, for $5.1 million. Lackawanna County purchased the ski resort in 1991 for $14.7 million (equivalent to $29.2 million in 2021). Construction began in January 1984 and was completed in time for the grand opening in December.

for $14 million (equivalent to $52 million in 2021). In 1979, the land was purchased from Pennsylvania Gas & Water Co. Public funding was provided by federal economic development funds and a county bond. The ski area was developed with a blend of public and private money. From 1984 to 1991, Montage Mountain was owned and run by Montage, Inc, a non-profit corporation.
