Winter Wonderland: The Best Skiing Near Chevy Chase
While there may not be any snow around here, local ski resorts have plenty of powder ready for the shushing.
Except for the past few days, the weather in the area has been so mild that many people have continued to enjoy warmer weather leisure activities. But with the biting cold, thoughts are turning to shushing down the slopes of powdery snow. There are 20 ski resorts within a four-hour drive of Washington, DC, with activities ranging from traditional skiing to snowboarding, tubing, sledding and much more. The DCSki website lists Carroll Valley, PA's Liberty Mountain as the closest ski spot, just a 1-hour, 35-minute drive from the nation's capital. Liberty offers 16 trails, eight chairlifts and 14 snow tubing lanes to handle 13,400 skiers per hour. Mercersburg, PA's Whitetail Resort is only 10 minutes farther away, and it recently celebrated …
