Jiminy Peak is in Hancock, in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. It opened in 1948. The summit is 2,380 feet, with 1,150 feet of vertical over 167 acres. There are 45 trails, three terrain parks and a longest run of 2 miles, and every trail comes back to the one base area. Nine lifts serve the mountain: a six-passenger high-speed chair, two quads, three triples, a double and two surface lifts.
Natural snow averages 68 inches a year, and snowmaking covers 96% of the terrain. Night skiing runs on 25 trails under LED lights. The season usually runs from mid-November to early April, with full-time operations from Thanksgiving, depending on snowmaking and weather. Zephyr, the resort’s 1.5-megawatt wind turbine on a 253-foot tower, makes the most power in winter, when the wind is strongest. Jiminy says it was the first mountain resort in North America to install one.
Jiminy streams three live cams: Express Cam, Express Cam 2 and Triple Cam. The resort doesn’t say what each one shows. With so little natural snow, a look at the live cams tells you more about conditions than a snowfall total does. After dark, they show conditions for night skiing.
Jiminy is at 37 Corey Road in Hancock, on Brodie Mountain Road, which runs between US Route 7 and Route 43. The Berkshires tourism board puts the region about an hour from Albany International (ALB), about 80 minutes from Bradley International (BDL) near Hartford, and about 2½ hours from Boston Logan. Mass511 shows road conditions.
Jiminy Peak isn’t on the Epic, Ikon or Indy Pass.