Jay Peak Resort
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| Location | Jay, Vermont |
| Nearest city | Jay, Vermont |
| Coordinates | 44°55′46″N 72°31′56″W / 44.92944°N 72.53222°W |
| Vertical | 2,153 feet (656 m) |
| Top elevation | 3,858 feet (1,176 m) |
| Base elevation | 1,843 feet (562 m) |
| Skiable area | 385 acres (1.56 km2) |
| Runs | 76 |
| Longest run | 4.828 kilometres (3.000 mi) |
| Lift system | 8 (1 Aerial tramway, 5 chairs, 2 surface lifts) |
| Snowfall | 29.6 feet (9.02 m) |
| Website | www |
Jay Peak Resort is an American ski resort located on Jay Peak in the Green Mountains, between the Village of Jay and Montgomery Center, Vermont. Its vertical drop of 2,153 feet (656 m) is the eighth largest in New England and the fifth largest in Vermont. Although mostly located in the town of Jay, Vermont, part of the resort, including the summit of Jay Peak, the Jet Triple Chair area and much of the Big Jay backcountry descent, is located in the town of Westfield, Vermont. The resort is just 4 miles (6.5 km) south of the Canada–United States border, above which is the Province of Quebec. Jay Peak Resort was owned and operated by a group of investors headed by Bill Stenger.
The resort opened for skiing in 1957, and it now includes year-round activities. The mountain offers 78 trails served by nine lifts. It receives the most snowfall of any ski area in the Northeastern U.S. In 2008 the property was valued by the town of Jay at slightly over $12 million.
On April 14, 2016 Jay Peak and sister mountain, Burke (QBurke) were seized by government officials amid ethics complaints. The resort's liquidity issues were resolved. The resort remains operational.
The ski trails were carved into the mountain during the 1950s primarily by its first ski school director/general manager, Walter Foeger, an Austrian and former racer who had previously trained the Spanish Olympic ski team. He arrived in 1956. He developed a method of teaching parallel skiing that avoided first having to teach the student snowplow/stem turns. Instead, students were taught to change direction by means of a slight hop keeping the tips of the skis on the snow, and displacing the back of the skis sideways. He called his ski teaching method "Natur Teknik" (natural technique). The Jay Peak ski school offered a "learn to ski in a week" guarantee. The method was adopted by a number of other ski areas.
In 1955, the resort's first ski lift, a T-bar, was purchased. In January 1957, the resort opened for skiing. In 1968 Weyerhaeuser invested $300,000 in the predecessor organization, Jay Peak, Inc., and loaned it $2.2 million. A 48-room hotel was built in the mid-1970s. In 1978 Mont Saint-Sauveur International bought the resort.
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