A growing number of US ski areas have announced plans to keep open into May after good spring snowfalls.
Most recently ski areas on the East Coast have reported up to a metre (3.3 feet) of fresh snowfall over the last four days.
However it's mostly West coast areas planning May operations with the deepest lying snow in North America. Only Killington in Vermont has confirmed its aiming for May if it can. It has had plenty of fresh snow this week but is well below its average for the season overall.
In California Mammoth Mountain and The Palisades are both reporting the snow lying more than 4 metres deep on their upper runs, two of the three deepest snowpacks in North America at present and say they are planning to stay open at least to the end of May, possibly into June.
In Utah, Snowbird have announced this week that they'll keep skiing and boarding through to at least Memorial Day at the end of May (27th). Spring operating hours with lifts running 8 am - 2 pm from May 6th, weekends only from May 12th. All "conditions permitting." A second Utah area, Solitude, is aiming for May 5th at present.
In Colorado Breckenridge, Loveland and Winter Park plan to stay open into May as well with Arapahoe Basin (pictured above this week) usually making it into June.
Crystal Mountain in Washington State is aiming to stay open into May too.
Oregon's Mt Bachelor plans to open to the start of next month while Timberline usually has North America's longest season, staying open into July or August, with skiing and boarding on its year-round Palmer Snowfield. It has the continent's second thickest snowpack at present at 4.4 metres.