Major interconnects

What follows is a table listing the 15 largest network of winter sport resorts in the Alps. There are many more, but all are smaller. Larger connections, including Utah's seven closest areas, fall generally within a 10 x 10 mile square (64,000 acres,) but their actual skiable/ridable acreage is significantly less than that.

Interconnecting resorts has become a necessity in order to compete for winter visitors.

Stand-alone North American resorts, as we know them, would be at a huge disadvantage in Europe, which among other reasons, explain why it's been so hard to attract and retain European skiers and snowboarders into the United States.

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