Sugarloaf ends season with 11 trails

Sugarloaf wrapped its 2025-26 ski season on Sunday, April 26, ending a late-spring run that kept Maine lift service going into the final weekend of the month. (sugarloaf.com) The resort’s closing-weekend page said lifts would spin through April 26, with late-season hours set at 9:30 a.m. to 4:50 p.m. starting April 20. (sugarloaf.com) Sugarloaf’s mountain report, captured two days ago, listed 32 of 176 trails open, two of 15 lifts running, and nine groomed trails still in service. (sugarloaf.com) That left Sugarloaf as one of the last ski areas operating in the Northeast and, after April 19, the only resort in Maine offering daily skiing and riding. (dailybulldog.com) (sugarloaf.com) Sugarloaf’s staying power comes from terrain and infrastructure as much as weather. The resort says it has 1,360 skiable acres, 176 developed trails and glades, and the only lift-serviced above-treeline skiing in the East. (sugarloaf.com) The mountain also says snowmaking reaches 95% of that terrain, which helps keep coverage intact deep into April even as spring conditions turn soft. (dailybulldog.com) With winter operations ending, Sugarloaf is already steering guests into warm-weather business lines. Its hours page says, “We’ll see you in the summer of 2026,” while its hiking page promotes access to summit trails, the Bigelow Preserve, and nearby stretches of the Appalachian Trail. (sugarloaf.com 1) (sugarloaf.com 2) The Sugarloaf Outdoor Center has also closed its winter season and now points visitors toward mountain-bike trail conditions in Carrabassett Valley’s broader trail network. (sugarloaf.com) So the last turns are done for now. At Sugarloaf, the handoff from spring skiing to hiking, biking, and other summer traffic has already started. (sugarloaf.com)