The Wisp Resort is a great destination for a family retreat. Its mountain offer terrain that is great for intermediate skiers as well as a ski school that is second to none. The school has great instructors who are willing to give private and group lessons depending on the skier's desire. Make sure to book your training in advance. They book weeks in advance around the holidays. The terrain parks while not large in size have many features to offer the snowboarder looking to make some turns. These parks are well kept and the features are well planed and placed. The back side of the mountain, known as North Camp, is allows the intermediate skier the chance to get away from the crowds and enjoy several good runs like Ace's Run. I believe this run is named after a ski industry legend, Ace Heise, who is rumored to still be working for the company after many years. The food at the resort is good and the DC's restaurant offers a nice variety of cuisine. After hours at Wisp, is a really treat. The resort has comedy night, live bands, a kid’s night out program and much more. Not to mention that this resort boasts a great tubing park as well as a mountain coaster that the kids and adults love. Their variety of programming offers something for the guest of all ages. If you are looking to travel to a resort where you will have stories to tell your friends at the office then choose Wisp. Their tag line is, "There is a mountain of stories up here." and it is true.

Keep those tips downhill and if you haven’t yet, Ski Wisp!

Ive Basically called the Wisp My Home Mountain since i was 2 and started skiing...its nice for an east coast mountain. On peak days or holidays the wait is ridiculous for anything at the resort and there are tons of people on the slopes but they run many specials thru the week and lift tickets are available cheaper..Its a good mountain for beginners not alot int he way of parks but some good solid runs a little icy at times but still a great place

To compare Wisp to anything out west would be a joke. But for an east coast resort, it's not too bad. Like most of the east coast, the hill is small and the snow hard packed and crunchy. The trails at Wisp are not well marked and there are lots of flats so if you're a green skier, you will end up on runs you don't want to take. But for us even the black runs seemed more like dark blues so we didn't find anything to be too challenging. Over a 3 day holiday weekend, the lift lines were never long. The green learning run "Belly flop" was completely blocked due to too many ski board classes sitting around. We rode the new alpine roller coaster and that was really fun apres ski diversion.

To their credit, the facilities were nice with a tightly integrated ski lodge (ski in/ski out), food court, indoor pool (huge 60ft & heated but small jacuzzi), bar/restaurant all connected indoors and fairly well run. The food was fair to pretty good. The hotel had room service. The queen suite we booked was small but moderately appointed (hair dryer, Murphy bed, fold out eating table, small color tvs). Upon check in they provided a valet to help with all our bags. They provided ski lockers for storage. Many skiers enjoyed the pool where towels were provided and they had hot lamps which made it feel quite warm pool side. The noise between rooms was a real problem. Apparently they allow dogs on the 2nd floor. So be careful when booking.

The Ski School Willy Wisp was more of a disappointment for us. It was way overbooked for what they could handled and extremely unorganized. Many other parents we found felt as we did. Although they had some really talented and friendly instructors, we found one of the rudest people working behind the front desk at the school. Hard as we tried to avoid this person, they were there when we dropped off and picked up our kids all 3 days. If they changed some key personnel and added either a PA or intercom system (for communication between front desk/playroom/outside ski area), and add about 200 square feet of space to the front desk area, this might help improve the operation.

Overall we had fun and enjoyed skiing and the kids did learn from the lessons. Wisp is a nice modern east coast resort with great promise. There's plenty of construction going on, building a hill top village and lots of new vacation homes. So with the right improvements in the right areas, Wisp could be even better. But beware of any reviews raving too much about it, because they either don't get out west very often or they may be shilling for the local real estate interests.

Keep your boots loose and your tips downhill.

i went to wisp when it was ridiculously cold (MINUS 17) at the base in the morning. it warmed up fairly well. i found a few nice runs and enjoyed the freshies. but, this is a review.
i was an instructor for snowboarding for one winter at a mountain in vermont. i had 95 days on mountain that year. i consider myself a good advanced rider. i assess a mountain based on terrain, as you can make your own apres ski if you like, bring your own food, and find your way around the traffic.
this mountain's terrain will get a two, not to be ugly. elk mountain in pennsylvania is a three. much better terrain on that mountain. hunter in ny and sugarbush and jaypeak in vermont get fours. i leave five for mountains like whistler and t-ride (been to neither). they are the standards, and have the extreme terrain.
this is a great mountain for kids to learn on, and to get them ready for mountains such as hunter and jay. only one or two steep trails. if it gets dumped on and no one else gets it north and east of it, would definitely come again.
don't remember a terrain park, and i would have avoided it --> 3

We've come up for two long weekends since late January and the snow conditions have been very good, considering the late start to the season. The runs are well-groomed with very few icy spots, and there's a good mix of runs to keep most skiers happy. We are intermediate skiers, and the black runs have provided enough variety and challenge to keep things interesting over three-day visits. The lift lines have been fairly short and the chairs get you to the top quickly. The staff of ski instructors have been outstanding for both of us and our 10 year old son, with many of his max-four student lessons turning into individual instruction. In three years we've never had a bad ski lesson experience.