“We have a northerly aspect, so our snow is preserved, and we have modern snowmaking. “We’re right on the interstate, so when the roads are good, it’s easy to get here,” says Dick Wolkowski, a ski patroller at Cascade Mountain since 1989. In town, two-bedroom apartments cost around $895 a month. Portage, WisconsinĬascade Mountain, ten minutes from Portage, Wisconsin, on Interstate 90, is a family-owned hill with lift tickets starting at $75. About a half-hour away is Ski Mount Southington, with its 425 vertical feet and 51 acres. Middleton, Connecticut, just outside of Hartford, is a college town-Wesleyan University is here-and a two-bedroom apartment will run you, on average, $950 a month. Here are ten towns with nearby hills or resorts where you can actually afford to live. So, if you can’t realistically live in a place like that, maybe it’s time we started expanding our definition of what counts as a ski town. A shortage of rental housing is causing major staffing issues in popular destinations like Vail, Jackson Hole, and Tahoe, leading to congested resorts and disgruntled skiers. The cost of living is astronomical, and housing is not only expensive, it’s obsolete. Living in a well-known outpost like Breckenridge, in Colorado, is proving near impossible these days. I mean, there are no Breckenridges in Ohio,” says Ben Armbruster, a high school English teacher and snowboarder from Painesville who serves as the ski club director at Harvey High School, where he works. “I would not call Painseville, Ohio, a ski town at all. If the definition of a ski town is a community in proximity to slopes, then perhaps these unlikely spots can be considered as such, even though nobody who lives there would call them that. The one thing they all have in common: a nearby ski hill. The result is a collection of places you might not expect: a Pittsburgh suburb, a remote southwestern outpost that was the site of the first atomic bomb testing, and a former oil boomtown in Wyoming. To compile the list, staffers looked at every community in America within 25 miles of a resort, then identified the towns (with no more than one per state) that had the cheapest average two-bedroom rental prices, according to the site’s current rental property inventory. But according to a recent report from, those are among the most affordable U.S. When you think of a ski town, chances are you probably aren’t imagining places like Middletown, Connecticut, or Burton, Michigan. Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members!
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