Smugglers' Notch Base Lodge

This is a review of the mountain. The lodge has plenty of room every time we have skied here.
The trails are varied, great options for everyone. The glades are top notch (my husband is the glade skiier), but they seem to have a few trails for the advanced skier ready to expand into the glades.
The lifts are slow and disorganized. It is mildly baffling that they dont have better organization as they are double chairs! But the snowfall they get is some of the best totals in the area.

Great Mountain to ski at if you are a veteran skier or a rookie. This mountain really excels with families of all types of skill level but mainly young families or first time skiing families, there is three peaks, one peak is designated just for new to rookie riders! The other two mountains are for experienced to thrill seeking skiers. The prices to ski here are cheap compared to their competitors, this mountain is the best bang for your buck. But the low price comes at a cost, the base logs are not as glorious as say Sugarbush or Stowe, they are more just like traditional ski lodges. They have a bar, food, a place to sit down, TV and heat, in my opinion all that anyone skiing will need!
Lodges 7/10, Trails 9/10, Staff 10/10, Housing 6/10.

Cafeteria is quick food, service downstairs at Black Bear can take a while sometimes. Green peppers is now waited service as well which kind of defeated what I liked about the place (decent food where I could get out and back on the mountain quick). All three are basically the same menu. Decent food that gets the job done.

Great lodge, no crowded, made us custom french fries with no salt too! Clean, tidy and warm. Great place to relax between riding/skiing

Buy the Bash Badge if you're an occasional mountain goer. It's the best value at only $30 a day. The lift lines are super quick and the trails are superb. One entire mountain is got basic green slopes. The other two are majority of blue and black all the way up to triple black diamond. The majority of all three have tons of snow makers, but this is Vermont, they are hardly ever needed. Smuggler's notch gets insane amounts of powder. As a newbie skier this place is way beyond my technical skill but I plan on getting tons better.