Great Brook Ski Touring Center
Season
Great Brook Ski Touring Center operates daily, snow conditions permitting, from December 1 until March 31 each season. (Pray for snow!)
Hours
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday:
9-5 (or dusk, whichever is earlier) - Tuesday, Thursday:
9-9 (night skiing on Lantern Loop, conditions permitting)
At closing time all cars must be out of the parking lot. Inclement weather and poor snow conditions can alter these times so call ahead if it’s questionable.
Night Skiing
Great Brook offers night skiing by lantern light on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, conditions permitting. Lanterns are lit on the 1-mile Lantern Loop from sunset until 9:00 PM allowing skiers the chance to admire the combination of brilliant night sky and glimmering snow. This is an especially worthwhile experience during a full moon. Headlamps and other forms of lighting are not permitted as they negatively affect other skiers. Only the Lantern Loop is open during this time; other trails close at dusk.
Great Brook Farm State Park’s Winter Use Policy
When adequate snow cover exists between December 1 and March 31, the machine-groomed ski trails (which are east of Lowell St.) are open only to paid skiers. Dogs are not welcome on machine-groomed ski trails.
Tickets for the machine-groomed ski trails can be purchased at the ski touring center at 1018 Lowell St.
Walkers, horseback riders, snowshoers, and all other users are prohibited from using the machine-groomed ski trails during these periods but are encouraged to use the ungroomed trails west of Lowell St., which begin at the Acorn trailhead across the street from the ski touring center parking lot. Inquire at the ski touring center for a map of these trails.
Contact the State Park Headquarters at 978.369.6312 For More Information
Ski Conditions
Our season has ended and we thank all who joined us on skis at Great Brook Farm State Park. Sustained cold weather made it an especially enjoyable winter, both for the prolonged packed powder conditions and for the deeply frozen ground which allowed adequate amounts of parking for the first several weeks. Mud eventually closed the outer parking lot but the groomed ski trails stayed open for 49 days. It was a real winter!
Reliable parking remains a serious concern for the ski concession as Great Brook's unusually short ski season requires high visitation for the business to be viable. The ski community should applaud the efforts of Rep. Simon Cataldo (simon.cataldo@mahouse.gov) and the Friends of Great Brook Skiing (email to join: fogbski@gmail.com) in working with DCR to enable adequate improvements to the outer parking lot. If successful, they will have done much to protect the future of skiing at Great Brook. Please express your support, and we hope to see you next year.