One of the world's leading ski resorts, Mammoth's north-facing slopes spread over one of the biggest ski areas in North America. The resort began in the late 1930s thanks to the efforts of pioneer Dave McCoy, who went on to build Mammoth up to its current global status and attracting more than 1.5 million visitors annually.
In the last decade McCoy was helped by resort developers Intrawest who took a stake in the resort (recently sold on when Dave retired in 2005, aged 90) and began to build a full resort base village where previously most lodging was down in the town of Mammoth Lakes. A long-planned gondola link to Mammoth Lakes has also been built, cutting out the need for a drive up to the base area car parks and most recently a ski run back down too.
Mammoth's great snow record means that the ski area offers one of the longest ski seasons in the world, typically opening in the first half of November and staying open into June, although it has reached August in the past.
Although the resort's facilities in terms of the number of shops and restaurants are not quite on the scale of South Lake Tahoe, Aspen or Vail, they are more than adequate, and the ski mountain is certainly a match.
Location:
Mammoth is located on the eastern edge of California's Sierra Nevada range and to the east of Yosemite National Park (access road closed in winter), inland from a point midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco on North America's west coast.
Read more: http://www.worldtravelguide.net/ski/mammoth#ixzz171cVObZ9
In the last decade McCoy was helped by resort developers Intrawest who took a stake in the resort (recently sold on when Dave retired in 2005, aged 90) and began to build a full resort base village where previously most lodging was down in the town of Mammoth Lakes. A long-planned gondola link to Mammoth Lakes has also been built, cutting out the need for a drive up to the base area car parks and most recently a ski run back down too.
Mammoth's great snow record means that the ski area offers one of the longest ski seasons in the world, typically opening in the first half of November and staying open into June, although it has reached August in the past.
Although the resort's facilities in terms of the number of shops and restaurants are not quite on the scale of South Lake Tahoe, Aspen or Vail, they are more than adequate, and the ski mountain is certainly a match.
Location:
Mammoth is located on the eastern edge of California's Sierra Nevada range and to the east of Yosemite National Park (access road closed in winter), inland from a point midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco on North America's west coast.
Read more: http://www.worldtravelguide.net/ski/mammoth#ixzz171cVObZ9
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