Ski Area Spring Festivals

As the snow starts to melt and the days get longer, Vermont's ski resorts know how to wrap up the season in style. Spring is packed with fun stuff like pond skims, spring concerts, maple festivals, and Easter sunrise services. Here’s a quick look at the coolest spring festivals happening in the Green Mountains to celebrate the end of ski season!

Bolton Valley

April 5, 2025 | 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Spring Thing at Bolton Valley

Join Bolton Valley for their first Pond Skim since 2015, along with their inaugural on-snow dual slalom mountain bike race. Enjoy skims, splashes, live music, food trucks, celebrity judges, and thrilling wipeouts.

Okemo

April 5, 2025 | 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
SNOWMELT: Okemo Slush Cup & Spring Fling Party

It's the biggest event of the year at Okemo! The Slush Cup is back at the Clocktower Base from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM. Party, have fun, and take home some cool prizes. Stick around for their Spring Fling Après from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM and enjoy great live music.

Stratton

April 5, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Stratton Mountain: End of Season Bash @ Grizzly's

Pop-punk tribute band Blank-281 is set to bring high-energy nostalgia to Grizzly’s End of the Season Bash with The Rock Show. Enjoy nostalgic riffs, anthem choruses, and the rowdy spirit that defined early 2000s punk. Prizes, raffles, and specials await! Free entry.

Sugarbush

April 5, 2025 | 11:00 am
Pond Skim

Join Sugarbush for their annual Pond Skim event! Whether you get wet or spectate from the crowd, be sure to participate in this annual rite of spring.

Smugglers’ Notch Resort

April 5, 2025 | 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Pond Skim

Elvis, a gorilla, and even guys in bikinis—anything goes on the Practice Slope during our epic Pond Skimming event! Registration is free and kicks off at 10:00 am at the Smugglers’ Notch tent in Parking Lot 1, but it’s limited to the first 100 participants, so be sure to arrive early.

Mount Snow Resort

April 5, 2025 | 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Sip of Spring Festival

Join us on Saturday, April 5 for Mount Snow's Sip of Spring Festival! This free event will feature a number of local and regional brands offering a variety of beers, ciders, and ready-to-drink beverages as well as giveaways, food trucks, and live music.

Jay Peak

April 5–6, April 12–13, April 19–20, 2025
Temps des Sucres Weekends

Experience the sweetness of spring at our Temps des Sucres Weekends—where tradition, music, maple magic, and spectacular fireworks come together.

Stratton

April 6, 2025 | 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Annual Pond Skim

Spring weekends include some of the best events of the season where goggle tans and t-shirts are the outfits of choice as we enjoy spring's soft snow, longer days and sunshine. Try not to take a dip during the 2025 Pond Skim at Stratton on April 6, 2025. The pond is back as participants try to skim across the water's surface and make it out the other side just as dry as they entered.

Stowe

Apr 11, 2025 - Apr 12, 2025 | 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Spring Bash

Don’t miss Stowe's 1st annual Spring Bash with two days of free live music via the Toyota Mobile Music Den Unplugged stage, the Northeast Pond Skim World Championships, and more. ​

Killington

April 12, 2025
Annual Pond Skim

It's back! The annual spring Pond Skim returns to Killington once again. Join the party by spectating or participating—just try not to get wet!

Sugarbush

April 12, 2025
Spring Fling '25

The annual ritual that celebrates sunshine and long days is back for its fourth year and will be bringing the beats of Jamaica to the stage at the Lincoln Peak Courtyard.

Killington

April 13, 2025
Superstar Closing Party

Join Killington on Sunday, April 13th as they bid farewell to the Superstar Express Quad on its final day of operation. They'll be sending off our iconic chairlift the only way they know how: a classic Killington spring party at the K-1 Umbrella Bar. Featuring live music, free giveaways, & more, don't miss your last chance to lap Superstar this season.

Killington

April 19, 2025
Dazed and Defrosted

Dazed and Defrosted ushers in the outdoor concert season with a spring music festival alongside a season-pass holder appreciation party.

Jay Peak

April 19, 2025
Annual Pond Skim

The annual pond skim at Jay Peak is back! Must look fabulous to qualify.

Stowe

Apr 20, 2025 | 5:00 am - 8:00 am
69th Annual Sunrise Service

Join fellow early risers atop Mount Mansfield for a non-denominational Easter Sunrise Service produced in partnership with the Stowe Community Church. One complimentary Mansfield Gondola ride will be available for guests.

Killington

April 20, 2025
Easter Sunrise Service

What better way to start off your Easter Sunday than with Killington's annual Sunrise Service? Get an early-morning trip on the K-1 Gondola to view a spring sunrise, followed by a non-denominational service in our Peak Lodge.

Sugarbush

April 20, 2025 | 7:30 am – 8:30 am
Non-Denominational Easter Service

Join Sugarbush for a non-denominational Easter Service at Gate House Lodge.

Jay Peak

April 26, 2025
Annual Tailgate Party at Stateside

Pack the cooler and break out the lawn chairs; Jay Peak's annual Tailgate party and cook-off is always a big to-do here come spring. Chow down (at the party) and get down (to the beats of a DJ and tunes from the Shady Trees).

Sugarbush

May 3-4, 2025
Last Weekend Luau

Join Sugarbush for their Last Weekend Luau in the courtyard. Break out your best aloha shirt and celebrate closing weekend!

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