NE U.S. Travel

» Barbara Rogers - Pocono Mountain Ski Areas

I have always snickered at the names of ski areas, too. At Okemo, a wonderful ski resort in Vermont, there's a whole new section called Jackson's Gore. In New England, the word "gore" in a town name means that it was a little section of land that didn't get included in the original land surveys in colonial times, so was not included in the land grants --hence nobody owned it. That's the location of the new section of Okemo, but somehow gore is not the image I want when I'm flying down a mountain on slippery sticks!