Cranmore Mountain Resort, operating in the summer with a Mountain Adventure Park, is a ski area located in North Conway, New Hampshire, United States. It began operations in the winter of 1937–38, and was owned until 1984 by the Schneider family. During the late 1980s and 1990s, ownership of the resort changed hands several times; it is now owned by a group of New England businessmen and is undergoing several years of expansion and modernization.
History
Cranmore was founded by local businessman Harvey Gibson and opened for the 1937–1938 season with a single rope tow.
In 1955, the East Bowl area was opened with the construction of a new Roebling double chair; this was followed in 1963 and 1969 by two new Mueller double chairs. Immediately after taking control of Cranmore, the new owners announced a multimillion-dollar expansion, including a new Doppelmayr quad chair, new snowmaking, a new mountain coaster and a rebuilt tubing park.
In March 2012, Cranmore announced plans to replace the East double chair, at the time the oldest operating double in New England, with a triple chair purchased from Wachusett Mountain for the 2012–13 season. In 2019, the mountain opened its ski and snowboard season on November 16, the earliest opening in resort history.
Mountain statistics
Cranmore has over of skiable terrain, with 56 trails and glades served by 7 lifts—a high-speed quad, a fixed-grip quad, two fixed-grip triples, one fixed-grip double and two surface lifts. The vertical drop of the mountain is .