To own a home with access to great skiing is on the wishlist of every snow-lover. And while there are plenty of places to live in close proximity to Oregon resorts, a waterfront home in The Dalles puts you near the snow, yet still keeps you beneath sunny skies for over 300 days a year.
Mount Hood has multiple ski resorts less than an hour from the village homes at Lone Pine. Mount Hood Meadows collects some of the highest average snow amounts in the nation – more than 450” per year. The facility has 11 lifts -- 5 of them high-speed quads – servicing 85 runs with plenty of ski and snowboard opportunities for all skill levels and ages. Experts seeking less company and more vertical can charter a snowcat ride up an additional 1,700 feet for the freshest turns on the mountain.
Just west of Hood Meadows is Timberline Lodge. This frequent U.S. ski team haunt averages over 400” inches of snowfall a year, and boasts the Northwest’s largest vertical terrain with a 3,690 vertical feet from the top of its highest run, Palmer, to the bottom of Still Creek Basin. Timberline also has snowcat opportunities and offers night skiing as well. The lodge itself is a National Historic Landmark, and its exterior was notably used as the establishing shots for the Overlook Hotel in Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining.
Night skiing is also available at nearby Mount Hood Ski Bowl. In fact, Ski Bowl has the largest night ski area in the country, featuring 65 runs and 7 lifts.