Attitash Mountain Resort, New Hampshire: from a WPA hill to Vail's Epic Pass

Attitash's founder, Phil Robertson, had a prior association with Cranmore, and New England Ski History says Attitash "included similar wide trails, a Carroll Reed ski shop, and the same restaurant manager" as a result. Attitash was purchased by LBO Resort Enterprises in July 1994, and following the 1995-96 season, Attitash Bear Peak "was rolled into the American Skiing Company along with its sister LBO Resort Enterprises areas." The resort was "quietly renamed Attitash" in 2004, dropping "Bear Peak" from its name. On April 5, 2007, Attitash and Mount Snow were sold together to Peak Resorts for $73.5 million, plus $2 million of debt assumption, according to New England Ski History. Vail Resorts closed its acquisition of Peak Resorts on September 24, 2019, adding Attitash among 17 U.S. ski areas to its portfolio, according to Vail Resorts' own press release. Attitash is listed as an Epic Pass mountain on its own website's pass offerings for the 2026/27 season, alongside the Epic Local Pass, Northeast Value Pass, Northeast Midweek Pass, and Epic Day Pass.

During the 2018-19 season, Attitash's Summit Triple chairlift broke down repeatedly, including a February 23, 2019 malfunction traced to a bullwheel and gearbox issue that closed the top half of the mountain, according to the Conway Daily Sun. Attitash's own website states that its high-speed quad "The Mountaineer" replaced the "fixed-grip Summit Triple Lift" and was "named to honor the historic railway that travels through the Valley." New England Ski History's lift database records that the Kachina Triple chairlift was installed for the 1997-98 season after being relocated from the North Peak Triple at Sunday River, Maine. On February 2, 2025, a chair on Attitash's Flying Bear lift detached, causing its single occupant to fall about 20 feet; the skier was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to NBC Boston. The Flying Bear lift was built to serve Bear Peak's terrain for the 1995-96 season, per New England Ski History.

The Bartlett Roundhouse, also known as the Bartlett Engine House, was built in 1887-88 by the Portland and Ogdensburg Railway as a service point for extra steam locomotives needed to power trains up the steep grades of Crawford Notch, according to its Wikipedia entry, which cites New Hampshire state historical records. The roundhouse was taken out of service after regular passenger service on the line ended in 1958, and was later used by the state as a sand and storage shed until the 1980s. The site was added to the New Hampshire State Register of Historic Places on July 28, 2008, and to the National Register of Historic Places on September 29, 2015. Diana's Baths, a series of small waterfalls on Lucy Brook, is located within the town of Bartlett; in 1863, George Lucy bought five acres of the site and built a sawmill, and by the 1930s the family had shifted from sawmilling to a concrete dam with turbines. The site became part of the White Mountain National Forest after the government purchased the land in the 1960s, per Wikipedia.