Wintergreen Adaptive Sports
Nonprofit adaptive ski and snowboard school with its own Ski Hut at Wintergreen Resort, offering affordable half- and full-day private lessons seven days a week.
Wintergreen Adaptive Sports offers Para alpine skiing and Para snowboard in Wintergreen, VA. It serves kids, teens and adults.
- Sports
- Para alpine skiing, Para snowboard
- Venue
- Wintergreen Resort
- Run by
- Wintergreen Adaptive Sports (WAS)
- Type
- Ski area
- For
- Kids, teens and adults
- Serves
- Physical disabilities, Limb difference
- Location
- 13 Grassy Ridge, Wintergreen Resort, VA 22967
- Area served
- Virginia, DC area, central North Carolina
- Cost
- Half day $60, full day $100
- Equipment
- Adaptive equipment provided
- Season
- Winter
- Lessons
- Mono-ski, Bi-ski, 3- and 4-track, Snowboard
- Lesson types
- Private lessons with at least two instructors: mono-ski, bi-ski, three-track, two-track and adaptive snowboard; half days 10am-12:30pm or 1:30-4pm.
- Lesson price
- Half day $60, full day $100, including lift ticket, equipment and instruction (season not labeled).
- How to book
- Complete and get approval for step-one registration, then email or call (phones open 9am); weekends fill fast and midweek groups are pre-booked, Mondays and Fridays are most open.
- Scholarships
- Need-based scholarships (Kim Wesdock Scholarship); free for Wounded Warriors.
- Getting there
- About 3 hours from Washington DC or central NC, 2.5 hours from Richmond; accessible parking in Lot 2 next to the Ski Hut.
- Affiliation
- Over two-thirds of instructors PSIA/AASI certified.
- Season
- Seven days a week, mid-December to mid-March (closed Dec 24, Dec 25 and Jan 1)
- Website
- wintergreenadaptivesports.org
- Phone
- 434-277-3408
- [email protected]
To confirm: Prices not labeled with a season. Minimum age and full list of disabilities served not stated on pages read (mono-ski page names amputation, spina bifida, SCI). Reservations required in advance after an approved 'step one' application.
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Source: wintergreenadaptivesports.org, checked . Programs change, so contact the program to confirm ages, costs and schedules before you go.