Ski resorts are a popular choice for travelers who enjoy cooler weather activities. Ski resorts are also a place where thrill seekers can find the steepest ski slopes. *Slope ratings play a large part when it comes to planning the best ski resort vacation, and the steeper the slope, the more thrilling the adventure.

About Black Diamond Ski Resorts

Black Diamond Ski Resorts are popular amongst advanced skiers as they offer some of the most challenging mountain slopes that include gradients of 40% and up. Black Diamond Ski Runs offer the steepest and most narrow mountain slopes, and include a number of potential hazards, i.e. trees, rocks, high winds, cliffs. Advanced skiers will need to be in full control due to the tighter and faster turns required when skiing down a mountain with a Black Diamond rating.

Double Black Diamond Ski Resorts and Triple Black Diamond Ski Resorts are also available for expert and extreme skiers.

The Best Black Diamond Ski Resorts

Black Diamond Ski Resorts are able to offer the fun and thrilling adventure advanced skiers are looking for when on vacation. Every Black Diamond Ski Resort is also family-friendly, offering families a variety of things to do besides skiing, like hiking, snowboarding, visiting museums, shopping, getting spa treatments, visiting nearby villages, going on a sleigh ride, and so much more.

The Best Black Diamond Slope are listed below, for those who dare.

1. Whiteface Mountain Ski Resort, New York. Skyward Ski Resort was part of the 1980 Olympics men’s downhill events due to the consistency of the pitch in the beginning, and the steepness that makes up the end.
2. Hahnenkamm Ski Resort, Kitzbühel, Austria. The Streif is Austria’s most popular Black Diamond ski slope, and home to World Cup alpine ski races every single year. Skiers are known to hit speeds of over 90 miles an hour on this top-rated ski resort slope.
3. Smugglers’ Notch Resort, Vermont. This best Black Diamond Ski Resort offers expert skiers the only Triple Black Diamond run, and is aka The Black Hole. Super steep slopes, rocky terrain and lots of trees makes this run only for expert skiers.
4. Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Wyoming. Also commonly known as America’s scariest ski slope, Corbet’s Couloir is an impressive 10,450 feet tall and has a Double Black Diamond slope rating.
5. Sunshine Village Ski Resort, Banff, Alberta. This Canada-based Double Black Diamond Ski Resort is so prone to avalanches that skiers must have a receiver, shovel and avalanche probe on them before they’re able to ski down this steeply sloped mountainside.

*A green rating means the ski slope offers the easiest runs, and include slopes with a gradient of less than 25% A blue rating is for intermediate skiers, and includes slopes with gradients between 25% and 40%. A black diamond rating is for advanced skiers and includes slopes with gradients that are 40% or more.

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