Mountain Creek Resort, South Side

Best Spartan venue in NJ and skii resort

Best ski area near home with enough varied terrain to get in a full day of outdoors exercise

Great place to ski and snowboard or to have a drink.

What I Like:
- Good ski / snowboard trails
- Huge parking lot (gets crowded on busy days)
- Outside porch to enjoy view over the trails and a drink
- 3 chair lifts

What I Didn't like
- Slow Service at the bar over there
- No signs what time they close

Great place to ski that is close to the suburbs and New York City. The amount of trails was outstanding! There are a total of 48 trails. The trails range from greens, blues, reds, and black diamonds. Also, the kids camp is outstanding! My daughter went for the full day and loved it. If you are interested in having food I would suggest going to Schwartz, go inside right of the ski/pole return, walk and turn left the turn around the corner and turn right and go UP the stairs. There should be a large bar with TVs and couches and tables. The pretzel was fabulous, amazing bier cheese.

Very fun, great instructors for 1st timers (even when your old!) The lodges have fun restaurant bars but everything closes early unfortunately! Karaoke Mondays are good times!