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Smugglers has made its reputation as a ôfamily mountainö -- especially for families with small children and adults who want to learn how to ski or snowboard.
They certainly do that job well. The lower mountain and the village buzz with energy, the easier slopes are alive with instructors and classes. Smuggs is a happy place. Most families park their car on arrival and never move it until they leave.
Higher up, on the two major peaks (Madonna and Sterling), Smuggs is a happy place for intermediates and experts. Their lifts are old, slow double chairs which service a whole array of trails ranging from tantalizingly tight trees to serious steeps to some wonderfully winding groomed intermediate trails. My expert skier sons describe the triple blacks on Madonna and the backcountry lines off Sterling as ôsavage,ö high praise indeed.
In the spring, you enjoy the long ride up in the sunshine almost as much as you enjoy the long, uncrowded ride down on the soft snow. Like Mad River Glen to its south, Smuggs has an old-fashioned appealùthough they have a lot more snowmaking and grooming than Mad River ever will. | 
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