Butternut has good grooming and snowmaking, but who cares when there are bad slopes? Butternut has to many intermediate and novice slopes. Even these aren't fun because there are 10,000 people on them so you can't really enjoy them and you have to ski at 1 MPH without crashing into them. They have a few black diamonds, but these are INCREDIBY short and would be greens out west. Did I mention this place is crowded? Don't bother, it's not worth the drive. Go to a place like the Cat without the crowds and with real trails.

My family has had season passes at both Catamount and Butternut. Both were great family places where my kids learned. The snow making and grooming are better at Butternut. It's less prone to ice. The base is easier to navigate. The ski school is better. I disagree with the review that the trails are much longer at Catamount. The longest is 1 3/4 to 2 miles, tops. Butternut lets natural moguls form on at least one trail. The lodge is much larger and brighter at Butternut. Granted it is in a strange spot, 3/4's of the way up the bunny slope. Great Barrington beats Egremount apre-ski anyday.
On the downside, it does get busier on some weekends and lift lines tend to form at peak hours for the main lift. Catamount has several more challenging trails, especially the often icy Catapult. All and all they are quite comparable except on a busy weekend after a snowstorm, when I prefer Catamount.

Weekend the lines are long and the lifts a bit slow. Some ice on the trails but conditions we're okay. Sunday they give fire/police discount so you can save a couple of bucks if you're a member.

I would go again, good fun for the family.

For such a small resort butternut actually does a pretty decent job. they just put in a new snow making system and it makes a huge different. Aside from the occasional icy or bare spot everything was well covered and well groomed. Decent cruisers, a couple steeps, mogul runs, and good beginner areas. My only real complaint was the slow lifts but they've got alot of them so you never have to wait too long. The park was also pretty mediocre. A lot of features but not really progressive, or varied. pretty much generic flat rails and jibs. couple decent hits but other then that a pretty cheap and sketchy park, not really worth the 3 dollars. the base are is really weird too, you kind of have to hike a part of the mountain to get to the cafeteria. its not bad for a day trip though ill probably go to catamount or windham from now on

Terrible conditions 1/20/2008! their website said packed powder and yet every trail was coated in ice! Have the goomers been out at all in the last month! The lifts were also terrible! The main quad kept breaking down and the lines just added up! The other lifts were ok but slow. I bought a full day ticket yet I was so displeased that I left after only a couple runs. I wont be back.