Appalachian Ski Mountain Will Donate Christmas Day Ticket Sales To Ski Patrollers
Here’s the scenario.
You want to ski or ride on Christmas Day, but you also want to open presents with the family. Or maybe you don’t even celebrate Christmas. Either way, there will be turns to be made on December 25, 2025, and you might as well be the one to make them.
If you’re in the Southeast, it sounds like Appalachian Ski Mountain is the place to be.
App Ski will be open on Christmas Day from 1 to 10 p.m. on December 25. More importantly, the day will serve as a fundraiser for the Appalachian Ski Mountain Ski Patrol. The fundraiser will help patrollers build a new ski patrol facility. App Ski’s patrollers are a great bunch, and they’re largely volunteer based.
And if you buy your tickets on Christmas day, they’ll be cheap. Those who buy tickets online before midnight on Christmas Eve will get a 50% discount. You can buy tickets at this link. https://appskimtnstore.com/
Mountain is located in Boone, near Appalachian State University. It’s small, with just 365’ of vertical drop. It’s mighty, though, as it puts a ton of effort into its terrain parks and has some of the most efficient chairlifts in the southeast. It’s the home mountain of pro snowboarder Luke Winkelmann, and countless other rippers who have moved away to mountains of bigger stature.
Perhaps most importantly, App Ski is the gateway to skiing and snowboarding for much of the Southeast. The holiday season will see visitors from Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Alabama.
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.
Earlier this month, App Ski sold lift tickets for just $10 in celebration of their 63rd anniversary.
