{"id":7832,"date":"2016-11-15T11:04:53","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T16:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.berkshirelinks.com\/?p=7832"},"modified":"2016-11-15T11:04:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T16:04:53","slug":"ski-butternut-berkshires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/ski-butternut-berkshires\/","title":{"rendered":"Ski Butternut in the Berkshires"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"social\">\n<ul>\n<li>Article by <a href=\"http:\/\/berkshirelinks.net\/contact-dave-read-berkshirelinks.html\" rel=\"author\" class=\"author\">Dave Read<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dcread\" class=\"facebook\">Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/davecread\" class=\"twitter\">Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Ski Butternut<\/strong> located in the Berkshires just east of Great Barrington offers downhill skiing on 22 trails with a vertical drop of 1,000 feet, as well as <strong>snow tubing and snow boarding<\/strong>, making it popular with families with children and young adults. Ski Butternut got its start when the New Haven Railroad developed it under the name Warner Mountain Ski Area in the 1930s. (Media credit: Wikipedia user: Jrclark.)Along with a full range of <strong>winter ski activities<\/strong>, Butternut is a popular Berkshires attraction in the summer as the site of music and arts festivals. Berkshires visitors coming to ski at Butternut may be interested in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkshirelinks.com\/lodging\/hotels\/us-ma-great-barrington.php\">Gt. Barrington, Mass hotels<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-4\">\n<h2>Ski Butternut contact information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>380 State Rd. (Rte. 23),<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkshirelinks.com\/great-barrington-mass\/\">Great Barrington, Mass<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Vertical drop: 1,000 feet;<\/li>\n<li>trails: 22.<\/li>\n<li>Tubing.<\/li>\n<li>413-528-2000.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/skibutternut.com\" title=\"Ski Butternut website\" target=\"_blank\">skibutternut.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--end col --><\/p>\n<div class=\"col-md-8\">\n<h2>Ski Butternut map and driving directions<\/h2>\n<p>[mappress mapid=&#8221;152&#8243; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; height=&#8221;250&#8243; adaptive=&#8221;true&#8221;]\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--end col -->\n<\/div>\n<p><!--end row --><\/p>\n<h2>How to get to the Berkshires<\/h2>\n<p>Here are inks for local and regional public transportation depots and stops, plus where to get <strong>Peter Pan bus and Amtrak train schedules and tickets<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/berkshires-bus-amtrak-train-schedules\/\">how to get to the Berkshires<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ski Butternut located in the Berkshires at Great Barrington offers downhill skiing on 22 trails and a vertical drop of 1,000 feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-skiing-outdoors","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}