If you’re one of the many skiers and snowboarders who really don’t need a humongous resort, miles of trails, high-speed lifts, and the prices that go with them, then you might want to check out Camden Snow Bowl, in coastal Camden, a town better known among yachtsmen than skiers.
The Snow Bowl exists in a time warp, with a vintage A-frame base lodge and retro food and ticket prices. The reward for riding the pokey double or relatively speedy triple is a cruise down nautically named trails that ebb and flow down the 950-foot vertical, delivering glimpses of island-salted Penobscot Bay. In addition to skiing and riding, the town-owned Snow Bowl has terrain and tubing parks, a toboggan chute, and ice skating on Hosmer Pond.
Every year, its toboggan chute is home to the annual North American Tobogganing Championships (Maine’s slide for the roses). The championships, held the first weekend in February, is the winter wing-ding in Camden.