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Cherokee offers skiing
without miles of travel
For those who can’t wait to wax up the skis and hit the slopes—but who lack the time, money or inclination to fly out west—a ski area opened last season only a few miles from Rappahannock’s borders.
Cherokee Ski Area is located on High Knob, in Linden, seven miles east of Front Royal, alongside Interstate 66.
Cherokee opened late last season with 100 percent snowmaking and lighted slopes for night skiing. It was the first new Southeastern area in nearly a decade.
Cherokee is a day-skier area an hour’s drive west of the Washington, D.C. Beltway. Automobile travelers can look up and see the ski runs at the 14-mile marker from the junction of 1-66 and 1-81, and Exit 3 at Linden puts them in the Cherokee parking lot.
Cherokee has a snowmaking system than can cover the 60 skiable acres a foot deep in 48 hours. Although Cherokee does not offer lodging at the ski area, nearby areas have a variety of motels and inns. The developers have concentrated on uphill capacity: Two 3,800-foot quad lifts and a 1,400-foot triple chair accommodate 6,000 riders per hour.
Trails include a 1.5 mile-long intermediate run, 1,400-foot beginner slope and a 2,000-foot advanced offshoot from the summit.
A base elevation of 1,250 feet, plus the slope’s vertical rise of 1,053 feet, gives Cherokee a 2,100 foot elevation.
That’s comparable to the tallest trails in Virginia. Cherokee caters primarily to beginner and intermediate
Call 703-591-5538.
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