Start from 22 curated places around Snowshoe, WV, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Appalachia Kitchen
The most refined dining option at Snowshoe Mountain, housed in the Corduroy Lodge with a farm-to-table approach that emphasizes West Virginia and Appalachian regional sourcing in a menu of composed New American plates. Consistently ranked as the resort's #1 restaurant, it delivers the kind of cooking that surprises visitors who expected standard ski-resort food.
The Junction Ale House
A lodge-style restaurant in the village centered around West Virginia craft beers, historical logging and railroading decor, and an American menu with Venison Chili, the Junction Burger, and wings that the resort's regulars consistently cite as the best comfort food on the mountain. The atmosphere is warm and social in a way that encourages lingering over a second beer.
Trails & outdoors
Cheat Mountain Ridge Trail
A ridge-top trail along the spine of Cheat Mountain accessed from Snowshoe that traverses high-elevation red spruce and northern hardwood forest at elevations above 4,000 feet with occasional open views across the Allegheny Highlands. The trail sees use from mountain bikers in summer as part of the resort's trail network and offers a different pace and character than the resort's engineered bike trails.
Silver Creek Loop (Mountain Bike Trail)
A resort-maintained mountain bike trail in Snowshoe's Silver Creek area that covers flowing singletrack through forested terrain with banked turns, small jumps, and enough technical features to engage intermediate riders without becoming expert-only. The lift-served access means riders can focus on descending rather than climbing and log multiple laps in a day.
Things to do
Snowshoe Mountain Resort Skiing
The primary East Coast destination for serious skiing south of Vermont — 60 trails spanning 1,500 acres of terrain at a base of 4,848 feet, with an average of 180 inches of annual snowfall and a summit elevation of 4,848 feet. The trail mix covers beginner terrain through genuine black diamond runs with a 1,500-foot vertical drop that's among the most significant on the East Coast.
Cass Scenic Railroad Steam Train
A 4.5-hour round-trip steam railroad experience aboard original 1920s Shay locomotives, climbing from the historic logging town of Cass to Bald Knob summit at 4,842 feet. The train runs on actual logging-era track, and the views from the open cars become increasingly panoramic as the locomotive works its way through switchbacks and trestles to the summit.
Landmarks & sights
Snowshoe Mountain Village
A purpose-built mountain village at 4,848 feet of base elevation that operates as a true four-season resort — skiing and snowboarding on 60 trails in winter, mountain biking with lift service in summer, and hiking across the Cheat Mountain ridge the rest of the year. The village has an alpine character built around pedestrian lanes, with lodging, dining, retail, and activity booking all within walking distance.
Cass Scenic Railroad State Park
A working steam-powered railroad operating out of the restored logging town of Cass, 15 miles east of Snowshoe, where the original Shay locomotives haul passengers up 11 miles of steep mountain grade to Bald Knob — the second-highest peak in West Virginia — on a route that once served the timber industry. The 4.5-hour round trip passes through remote Allegheny forest to panoramic summit views, with the locomotives burning coal and producing the full sensory experience of 1920s mountain railroading.