Appalachian Ski Mountain To Offer $10 Lift Tickets
Everyone loves a good anniversary. And while 63 isn’t necessarily a round number that’s typically celebrated with extravagance, Appalachian Ski Mountain is throwing a party, anyway.
Lift ticket prices for the weekend of December 6 and 7, 2025 will cost just $10. Time to ride the slopes like its 1968.
Riders who wish to take advantage of these dirt-cheap prices should reserve their tickets online by midnight this Friday, December 5. Rentals will still cost the usual price.
Appalachian Ski Mountain - affectionately known to the locals as “App Ski” – was the first ski mountain to open up in North Carolina’s High Country. It was originally built in 1963, when it was dubbed the Blowing Rock Ski Lodge. It was just the second ski area to open up in the state, as Cataloochee opened just a year earlier. App Ski is also just five miles from the campus of Appalachian State University, and about seven miles from downtown Boone.
More recently, App has become known as the home of U.S. National Team Slopestyle and Big Air rider Luke Winkelmann. The ski area is small but mighty. It has 13 slopes, a vertical drop of 365’, and its longest run (Orchard Run) is just a half-mile long. But it boats four mighty terrain parks, and that is where Winkelmann cut his teeth in the early days of his career.
As a way of saying thank you to the community that raised him, Winkelmann held a rail jam, sponsored by Red Bull, at App Ski back in 2022. Locals like Zeb Powell, Reilly Tardiff, and Brantley Mullins all competed, but so did pros like Zak Hale, Annika Morgan, and Jesse Augustinus.
App Ski held its opening day of the 2025-2026 season on November 29. A surprise storm swept through North Carolina’s High Country in mid-November, but in classic southeastern fashion, a quick rise in temperatures saw that snow melt soon enough.
