Alaska Ski Resorts Map

To get you up the mountain there are a dozen quad lifts (six of them high-speed express), six triple lifts, four double lifts, nine surface lifts including two Magic Carpets, and two high-speed, heated express gondolas, all with a total capacity of 52,000 skiers per hour.

Oh by the way, the trip from Anchorage to Seward (Girdwood is along the way) is known as the Seward Highway. It is ranked one of the ten most beautiful drives in the world. You'll see plenty of bald eagles (especially in Eagle River. Ask about them at the Haute Quater Grill about 50 of them nest near the restaurant), moose, and maybe mountain goats and dall sheep if you look closely enough.

Don't worry too much about the snow, they have the infrastructure to keep the roads clear. You can go ice skating, ice fishing, snow machining (yeah you folks from the lower 48 call it a snow mobile), but you'll have an awesome time. I attached links to all of the places I discussed.

If you don't choose a ski package plan which includes room, meals, and lift tickets, Killington Resort has various packages just for the slopes, including special rates on lifts for two to seven days, or plans with which you get lifts and lessons for two to seven days at reduced rates, or all three lifts, lessons, and equipment rentals for one price.