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Afton Alps in Minnesota

Afton Alps

Rated #5 in Minnesota

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  • Overall Rating 3.9 Reviewed by 24 users
  • Family Friendly 4.1
  • Downhill Terrain 3.5
  • Terrain Park 3.8
  • Nightlife 2.3

Recommended For

  • Single/Newlyweds 85%
  • Families 85%
  • Empty Nesters 42%
  • Beginner 71%
  • Intermediate 71%
  • Advanced 42%
 

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Most Helpful Review

    • Overall Rating 3.0
    • Family Friendly 4.0
    • Downhill Terrain 2.0
    • Terrain Park 5.0
    • Nightlife 2.0

    Afton... The tail to Two Hills

    by bjohnsonmn - Oct 31, 2008

    Pros: Great For Boarders, Decent Chalets

    Cons: Little for advanced skiers, Roving packs of unatended kids/kid dump

    Afton, Afton, Afton... To be fair, I have only been to Afton about five times, but they were all "good condition" days. The reason I titled the review "Afton... The tail of... Full review

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Most Recent Reviews

    • Overall Rating 4.0
    • Family Friendly 4.0
    • Downhill Terrain 3.0
    • Terrain Park 4.0
    • Nightlife 1.0

    It's Just Afton

    by sjcleve - Nov 10, 2009

    Pros: Close to the citties, decent parks, decent terrain

    Cons: Lot and lots and lots of kids. $40 weekend tickets

    Afton is by far the closest area to the cities worth going to. Hy and and buck hill are jokes in my opinion. The terrain is decent at afton. There are some... Full review

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    • Overall Rating 1.0
    • Family Friendly 4.0
    • Downhill Terrain 2.0
    • Terrain Park 3.0
    • Nightlife 1.0

    Not good

    by Marko17 - Jul 10, 2009

    Pros: its large area lots for kids

    Cons: Unattended kids, teenagers running crazy, the slope of the entire area

    No insults huh, well afton scores LOW. They took out the midweek 9-5 deal because they said people would abuse it by staying past 5. HELLO have your lift operators do there... Full review

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    • Overall Rating 4.0
    • Family Friendly 4.0
    • Downhill Terrain 3.0
    • Terrain Park 4.0
    • Nightlife 2.0

    Good Times

    by sdiestler - Mar 10, 2009

    Pros: Variety

    Cons: short hills

    There is plenty of variety at Afton. Lots of green runs but plenty of blue and black runs to keep you entertained. There are several terrain parks to play around it. Weekends... Full review

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