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No snow report here. We don’t know what any hill is doing today, and nothing on this page tells you whether to drive. Hours, lifts, lanes and snow are the operator’s to report: follow the link to its own page first. Why we work this way.

What this site is, and isn’t

It is a guide for people in Ohio who want to ski, snowboard or snow tube this winter, most of them families and beginners. Every fact about a hill is a sentence from that hill’s operator, or from a state agency or association, shown in quotation marks with a link and the date we read it. It isn’t a review site. Nobody here has ranked the hills, and nobody paid to be listed.

Why is there no snow report?

Because we can’t see the hills, and a wrong answer costs a family a drive. Whether a hill has lifts turning, which lanes it is running and how its snow is are things only the operator knows, hour by hour. So our own sentences never say any of it, and every page links the operator’s report instead. Where an operator’s page carried a notice about its season when we read it, we quote the notice with the date and say that it will change.

Method

Before each update a script fetches every source it can again, with a User-Agent that names this site, and checks each quote word for word. Five pages it cannot fetch were read once in a web browser; their lines are matched against the record of that reading, not against the page, and are described under “Pages we could not read” below. Case, spacing, the style of quotation marks and dashes, and a stray space before a comma are ignored; nothing else is. A source that doesn’t load counts as unverified, a failed check never replaces the last passing one, and the site isn’t rebuilt from a failed check. The last full check was November 11, 2026; that is the “read” date beside every fetched quote. A quote marked “read in a browser” carries the date of the browser reading instead, and a later check does not renew it.

Seasons. A fact carries the label prints 2026-27 only when the quoted words themselves print that season. Where the lines we quote name no season, we say so and give the date we read the page. Several pages were still showing last winter’s notices or dates in mid-November, and we label those as what they are.

Disagreements. Where an operator’s own pages give two different figures, both are shown. We don’t pick.

Prices. A price appears only inside a quote. Our own sentences never state, round or compare one. A lift ticket price from a Vail Resorts page is shown only with the date it was for and the day it was read.

Our own words. As a backstop, the build runs word filters over everything that isn’t a quote. They stop on wording that would report a hill’s operating status or snow, on a dollar figure, on a year outside a date, and on ranking words. A second list holds every quote that itself uses opening or closing words, each with the reason it was accepted. A filter catches careless edits. It can’t judge whether a quote is fairly used; a person reads the pages for that.

Our own arithmetic. Three kinds of figure on this site are worked out by us and not quoted, and each is labelled where it appears: straight-line miles between published points (the nearest hills page lists every point and its source); one subtraction of two elevations on the Alpine Valley page; and the feet-to-meters conversion that shows a Mad River Mountain line disagrees with itself. We don’t rank hills by any of them.

Words that are not on a page. Where we say a word or a season doesn’t appear on a page, the same script searched that page’s text for the exact strings we name. That shows the strings are absent. It doesn’t show the page has no rule worded another way.

The weather panel. Your browser asks the National Weather Service for a forecast when the page loads and does the arithmetic described on the weather page. We don’t see those requests.

Pages we could not read

Some official pages don’t answer a plain request. Vail Resorts sends its ticket, tubing, rental, night-skiing and pass pages to a waiting room, and two resort websites refused our reader. We identify ourselves honestly and don’t work around either. These are the pages our script could not open:

Pages read in a browser. Five of those pages were read by a person in an ordinary web browser on November 11, 2026, one page view each: the lift ticket pages of Boston Mills Brandywine, Alpine Valley and Mad River Mountain, and the tubing pages of Brandywine and Mad River Mountain. The lines quoted from them were recorded then with the page address and date, and they are marked “read in a browser”. Our script can’t repeat that reading, so we give it a shelf life: 45 days, through December 26, 2026. After that date the pages hide those passages in your browser and show a notice in their place, and the next build of the site removes them, unless the pages have been read again. With JavaScript off the passages stay on a page already published, so each carries a line with its read date and the date not to rely on it after. A lift ticket price there is the price shown for one named date on the day of the reading. The rental, night-skiing and Epic Pass pages, and the pages where lessons are booked and priced, have not been read, so the site prints nothing from them. The lesson guidance quoted on this site comes from the hills’ first-timer pages, which our script can fetch.

Sources

Photos and fonts

Every photo is either in the public domain or under a Creative Commons license, copied from Wikimedia Commons, with the license checked on the file’s own page: Nyttend (public domain (released by the photographer)); Frank John Aleksandrowicz, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Documerica), National Archives (public domain); SSobachek (CC BY-SA 3.0); Robbtronic (CC BY 3.0); Serge Melki (CC BY 2.0); DimiTalen (CC0). Each caption says where and when the record places the photo and how we changed it. None shows this winter, and two are not of Ohio and say so.

Fonts: Barlow Condensed and Hanken Grotesk, under the SIL Open Font License (notice, notice).

Corrections

Spot a mistake, a quote that has changed at the source, or a hill we missed? Email hello@ohioskihills.com with the page and a link to the correct information on an official site. We fix verified errors and never charge for a listing or a correction. We can’t take snow reports.

Who makes this

Ohio Ski Hills is published by North Coast AI LLC in Ohio. It was built with AI assistance and reviewed by Bill Burkey. It isn’t affiliated with Snow Trails, Vail Resorts, any ski area named here, the state ski associations, the National Ski Areas Association or the National Weather Service. The site is supported by advertising; no listing is paid.

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