Greek Peak Mountain Resort

A friend and I went there Feb. 20,2015. It was cold in there. Kids shivering blue lips, adults shivering. The food line was easily ½ hour wait. We left early it was so cold. Sent the manager an email, no response. Waste of money. Won’t go there again. Their claim of 84 degrees year round is very false advertising.

Myself and my family have been skiing here since 1997. Ever since the new owners have taken over the skiing, restraurants, care of the customers have gotten 100% better. We were starting to go to other mountains to ski and weren’t coming here much. Today was the best skiing I have EVER had here, snow was perfect, it was groomed perfectly, no lines for lifts and dinner was great! Definately come here if you run the area!

Great place… my kids learned to ski here years so, and we still love coming every year. Now Trax is a great place to eat and listen to live music. All around good.

This review is for the summer resort — zipline and mountain roller coaster. I had a great time here!!! I have made so many great memories in upstate New York and Greek Peak holds a place in my heart now.
The zipline is a blast! There are 4 ziplines. This might be one of the bigger zipline courses in the state of NY. You start off in the second floor of the summer lodge area. The instructors help you get your gear in place and go over some safety rules. They are all super friendly and easy going. Then, you begin the tour. The first and third ziplines are short, but still a lot of fun. There is a small walk between the ziplines but nothing difficult. For two of the ziplines you have to go up the tubing lift which is a lot of fun. All of the ziplines are tandem so you can race a friend (side by side) down to the bottom. The equipment was very sturdy and comfortable.
Next we took a few trips down the mountain roller coaster. Oh my goodness!!! We had so much fun! The coaster cars have brakes so you can control the speed but I suggest not using it and going as fast as possible. When you get back to the lodge, you can print pictures of yourself on the coaster. This was so much fun!

The new ownership updated some stuff, but horrible staff. Didn’t even bother trying the food.
The management seems good, at least at repairing the damage done by the staff.
If you have no other choice but to go skiing on these icy slopes, go elsewhere for food and drinks, it’s a really crapy experience.

Had a fabulous time here on New Years Eve. Met one of the owners as well. Such cordial people all around! Try this place out if you don’t want to take the long drive to a big expensive mountain! Buy one get one free Tuesdays!!!

This was a fun place to go tubing, kinda wanted more hill choices, but this was a nice place, the staff is great.

I visited Greek Peak with some friends specifically for the snow tubing. We all had a great day and found the staff to be friendly and professional. There were seasoned snow tubers and total beginners among us but we all had a great time. There was a convenienlty located restaurant where we were able to get some food for lunch and take a break to warm up.

I would say this review is a little dated, but since nothing ever changes at Greek Peak I think it’s fine.
I was a season pass holder from 2000 – 2005 and came to ski here at least twice a week for five winters, day and night, warm and cold, crappy winter or good winter, so I feel like I can review with some authority. After half a decade here, it did start to get a little boring, but my friends and I discovered that a visit to Orion’s before hitting the slopes would make the mountain interesting again (just like they do it in Austria).
For what it is, a big hill in Central New York, Greek Peak really is a decent place to ski. I have been to all the other spots in the area with the exception of Bristol, and of them it’s certainly the largest, with the widest variety of terrain. Also, having grown up skiing small places like Big Bear in California and Lee Canyon in Nevada (bet you didn’t know you could ski an hour from vegas, did ya), I did not expect Whistler when I first showed up. The vertical here is also probably the best you are going to get without driving to the Catskills, and then you have to put up with the NYC crowd, and who wants to do that. Greek Peak is tall enough that you don’t feel silly.
My favorite runs were Zeus and Alcmene, and you could certainly have some fun in the glade or on the bumps on Illiad. Another nice thing is that the area is wide, so you can spend time on one hill, then go to the other side, and feel like you were at a much larger place.
Saturdays get a little crazy, so if you can, avoid it, but things clear out at night, and certainly during the week there are no lines, so you can cover a lot of ground. It would be amazing if they could install a high speed quad up the main slope, but whatever, the doubles have a certain charm.
Overall, I have a lot of fond memories of this place. It’s not the most exciting place in the world, but it certainly can hold its own. If I still lived in the area, I would definitely still be skiing there.

I have held a ski pass for two consecutive seasons at Greek Peak. The first season was fine, I would have rated them a ³⁄₅ stars because the snow was good, but the lifts are slow and old so going up can be brutally cold if you’re going up to the high slopes.
The second season, ²⁰¹¹⁄₂₀₁₂ was unskiable. The weather was very warm and while this is not the fault of the resort there are a couple of things that could have been handled differently and which make me feel this business is both unsafe and unethical.
First, there is an expectation that with a pass you’ll get at least a handful of ski days in. This was nearly impossible, not sure anyone was able to find this. They can stay opened, but can not make enough snow given the weather to keep the slopes covered with the exception of the small bunny slope.
Second, there is an expectation of safety on opened slopes. I found the higher green slopes that I was familiar with opened, but downright scary to ski down because they were literally mostly ice with a light dusting over it. People skiing green slopes are not generally talented enough to safely ski this condition.
I feel that the resolution is that they should have offered a partial credit to people who bought last year’s pass. I realize they can’t give a cash refund, but offering a partial credit is good business practice in this situation. I would have considered buying a pass for the coming season if this had been offered, but it was not so they have lost me as a customer. I contacted them by email, but received no response. It has been 8 months since I emailed.
Second I feel strongly that they should not open green slopes that are ice with a dusting over it as it is very unsafe to ski down for people of the level that would choose a green slope. I feel like opening the slopes was a move to make money that jeopardized the safety of the visitors. When I went last time I skied as slowly as possible down this slope and back to my car. I was not about to attempt it again! It was neither fun nor safe.

I’m from California and came here in the winter of ⁰⁹⁄₁₀ for a day. This mountain isn’t at the same level as westcoast mountain resorts (CA, UTAH, etc). It’s a decent mountain resort. Staff seemed pretty friendly and people here seemed nice (unlike resorts in CA). Mountain is very beginner friendly. Nothing too crazy.
The bar at the base of the mountain was pretty good too. I had lunch there and the bartender was really cool and the food wasn’t bad either.
I’d come back here again.

It’s hard to review Greek Peak. On one hand, it’s my hometown mountain, the ski area that taught me how to make turns and hockey stop. I spent so many cold winter nights here as a middle– and high school student, falling in love with tall, dark strangers on the lift and laughing with my girlfriends.
On the other hand, I spent five years in Colorado, where the resorts make Greek Peak look like a X-​country ski area.
But for what it is, and where it is, Greek Peak is definitely a top notch destination.
For one thing, it’s incredibly sweet. Nothing has changed here in at least 25 years — from the antique benches in the lodge to the creeky, groaning chair lifts. You can park for free almost right next to the mountain — a luxury that no Colorado resort can offer.
With the opening of that ridiculous water-​park/​resort hotel thing across the street, things at GP are changing — and I hear that there are plans to demolish the base and build something new next year. This is unfortunate — most of Greek Peak’s charm comes from it being a timeless gem that can’t help but remind you of the simpler days.
The price for a full day lift ticket seems a little outrageous at $ 57, though if you plan to ski from 9am to 10pm, it’s definitely a bargain. Night-​skiing begins at 5pm (4pm on weekdays) and is just $ 31. Not bad, considering that there are rarely lines at night, so you can easily take 5 – 8 runs in a single hour. There are also other price points — like for an hour of skiing at the end of the day, and if you want to ski the bunny slope only. Rental prices seem pretty reasonable — and the resort offers group and private lessons, too. Tubing tickets are for the ski– and snowboard-​shy, and you don’t need to walk up the mountain each time with your sled — there’s a lift to do that for you.
Basically, if you live in Ithaca or the surrounding area, there’s no excuse NOT to go to Greek Peak at least once in your lifetime — and especially after a major snowstorm, when the snow conditions easily rival those of the best Rocky Mountain resorts.

Great, hidden away, ski area. No lift lines, lots of terrain, long runs (by Eastern Standards). Older chair lifts, but since their are no lines, no need for a high speed quad, yet! Only downside is that there isn’t much happening immediately around the area. A little more life in Cortland (8Mi away).

I must agree with the previous reviewers that Greek Peak really is a good place to ski. Being a Florida native, I didn’t take up skiing until senior year of college, and I had low expectations for the place given the trash that I had heard everyone talking about it for years. I quickly realized that this was simply due to the fact that my fellow Cornellians had all grown up owning houses at Stowe/​Killington/​Sugarbush etc. and were extremely spoiled. No, clearly you are not going to find runs like that in CNY but I don’t think that’s the defining feature of the place. It’s a great place to learn, there’s certainly enough variety of runs to practice your technique, and you aren’t going to get bored there in a day. Besides, no one can argue the location. Last year I would go ski a full morning a couple times a week and come back in time to make it to class. Can’t exactly do that in northern Vermont. The season pass is a great deal, especially if you are a college student… if you go only 10 times in a season, it averages out to $ 20 lift tickets. Not bad in my book. No, the mountain isn’t amazing, but it will certainly get the job done and the location can’t be beat.

I have only skied Greek Peak once and it was at the end of the 2007 season. The day I went was really a Seasons Pass day since I think I am one of the few people on the mountain that paid for a pass ($ 54 weekend rate).
In spite of the fact that it was one of the last days of the 2007 season the skiing was good. In fact I had only planned on skiing in the morning and then catching a Syracuse Lacrosse game in the afternoon. I was having so much fun I skied until 5 PM when a storm showed up and it started to rain (complete with thunder and lightning).
The runs at Greek Peak are long and there is a lot of different terrain. I skied on of the mogul fields on the day I went. It actually turned out to be one of the best days of skiing I had the whole year.
My only mistake was not buying a seasons pass. Greek Peak had a deal that if you bought a 2007 — 2008 season’s pass it could be used at the end of the 2006 — 2007 season. There is some risk but at $ 54 a pop it would not take long to break even on a $ 239 (I think) season’s pass.
I am looking forward to skiing Greek Peak a couple of times this year. I am going to get some of my friends to come with me as well.