Boston Mills/Brandywine Ski Resort

BostonMills/Brandywine
Location Boston Township / Sagamore Hills Township, Summit County, near Peninsula, Ohio, USA
Nearest city Akron, Ohio
Vertical 240 ft
Skiable area 79 acres
Runs 18
Longest run Buttermilk (BM) / Outer Limits (BW)
Lift system 16
Terrain parks 5
Snowmaking 100%
Night skiing Yes
Website http://www.bmbw.com

Boston Mills/Brandywine Ski Resorts are a pair of sister ski resorts, owned by Peak Resorts, in Northeastern Ohio.[1] The two locations were developed independently in the 1960s. In 1990, Brandywine was purchased by the owners of Boston Mills, forming the dual-resort complex known today. In 2002 Peak Resorts purchased the resorts and has owned and operated them ever since.[2] Resort operations are housed at Boston Mills. Boston Mills is the primary resort, attracting more advanced skiers with steeper, more challenging hills, two mogul fields, a race hill, and more adult traffic and live entertainment. Boston Mills even has some tree runs that appear with the falling of natural snow including the "Ol 76er", "The Trench" and "Tiger's Fang". Professional freestyle and freeskier Glen Plake has skied "Tiger" at Boston Mills and called it a "great run for a mogul course". Boston Mills is also home to "Carnival", a giant end of season party that has featured a slosh pit, mogul competitions, big air competitions, sickest trick competitions, fire hose races, bikini races, sled races, beer keg races, costume contests and fireworks displays. A viral video once showed Boston Mills ending the season by sending a jetski down the main mogul run. In 2018, Red Gerard, who began his snowboarding career at Brandywine while living in Rocky River, won the Gold Medal in Snowboarding Slopestyle.

Brandywine, located about a mile away from Boston Mills caters more to freestyle skiing and snowboarding, with three terrain parks of different difficulty levels, a new lodge built in 2012 complete with a wide open cafeteria. Brandywine features longer, more user friendly slopes and greater lift capacity. Brandywine has late night skiing on Friday and Saturday during peak season.

Between both resorts (only a few miles apart, with each visible from the other's peak), there are 18 trails of various skill levels:

Boston Mills 3 Advanced 2 Intermediate 2 Beginner 2 Double lifts 4 Triple lifts 1 Magic Carpet 1 Tow rope

Brandywine 3 Advanced 3 intermediate 3 Beginner 2 Dedicated Terrain Park runs 1 Tubing park 3 Triple lifts 2 Quadruple lifts 1 Magic Carpet 2 Tow Ropes [3]

The tubing park is named Polar Blast and is located at Brandywine. It features up to 20 lanes that stretch over "3 football fields in length." Polar Blast also has conveyor lifts so tubers do not have to walk back to the top of the hill.[4]

Boston Mills is located at 41°15′51″N 81°33′54″W / 41.26417°N 81.56500°W / 41.26417; -81.56500 in Boston Township, Summit County, near Peninsula, Ohio.

The Brandywine Ski Resort is located at 41°17′02″N 81°33′20″W / 41.28389°N 81.55556°W / 41.28389; -81.55556 a little more than one mile to the north, in Sagamore Hills Township, Summit County, Ohio.

References

  1. ↑ "Boston Mills/Brandywine official web site". Retrieved March 5, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Peak Resorts History: New England Ski History". Retrieved March 5, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Boston Mills/Brandywine official web site". Retrieved March 5, 2011.
  4. ↑ "Boston Mills/Brandywine Website".


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