OnTheSnow visitors pick Steamboat as North America's 'Best Overall Ski Resort'

BANFF, Alberta - March 30, 2023 - PRLog -- Banff, Alberta - OnTheSnow.com's visitors and app users have chosen Steamboat Ski Resort as the Best Overall Ski Resort in North America in its annual Visitors' Choice Awards. OnTheSnow's users, who collectively take millions of destination ski trips each winter, rated and reviewed the resorts they visit for characteristics such as terrain, après -ski, family activities, terrain parks, and more.

"Millions of ski trips are taken by OnTheSnow's visitors and app users each ski season," said Chad Dyer, Managing Director of Mountain News, publishers of OnTheSnow. "The ski season culminates with the Visitors' Choice Awards, honoring those resorts that OnTheSnow users rated highest for the 2022-2023 Winter Season."

The award for Best Overall Ski Resort was presented to Steamboat today at the Mountain Travel Symposium in Banff.

"Steamboat is known for delivering an industry leading experience, from our passionate staff to our incredible on-mountain amenities and terrain offerings; it's what sets us apart. To know that our guests recognize this by choosing us as the Best Overall Resort is the highest honor," said Rob Perlman, president and chief operating officer for Steamboat Ski & Resort Corporation. "This award is a true testament of how the Steamboat Way guides our team in everything we do."

Six other ski resorts took top honors across multiple categories in OnTheSnow's Visitors' Choice Awards.

Telluride took top honors for having the Best All-Mountain Terrain for the second year in a row. The resort's 2,000 acres of skiable terrain is divided with challenging chutes, bowls, steeps, bumps and wide-open groomers. Colorado's Breckenridge and Keystone also took top honors in their respective categories for the second year in a row. Keystone was rated Best Terrain Park, while Breckenridge was top-rated for Best Après-Ski.

Angel Fire Resort, in New Mexico, took top honors as the Most Family-Friendly Ski Resort. Angel Fire markets itself as a family-first ski resort, where more than half of its guests are families learning to ski.

Located in Massachusetts, Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort, the largest ski and snowboard resort in Southern New England, took top honors for Best Ski Area for Beginners. Half of Jiminy Peak's terrain is rated as easy and low intermediate, and it offers great beginner lessons designed for first-time skiers and riders.

Finally, Silverton Mountain Ski Area, in Southwestern Colorado, won for Best Small Ski Area. Silverton is an advanced-only ski area, with just 1 lift, but 1,819 acres of natural skiable terrain.

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OnTheSnow.com's Visitors' Choice Awards are an annual list of favorite ski resorts as ranked by user ratings and feedback from the platform's nine million unique North American visitors. Media assets can be found HERE (https://app.box.com/s/non68qgtwrz561p7uz1q7ue64pmjterl).

Media Contact: Spencer Spellman, Senior Editor of OnTheSnow, spellman@mountainnews.com