Skiing Titus Mountain

Titus Mountain Family Ski Center is a five-to-seven-minute drive from the cabins. Its base lodge at 215 Johnson Road, Malone, is about three and a half road miles away. Titus has 53 trails and glades on three connected mountains, night skiing on Friday and Saturday, three terrain parks, a tubing hill with its own conveyor lift and a learning area for first-timers, and it takes the Indy Pass. This guide covers the mountain itself; the winter weekend guide shows how to build a stay around it.

Getting to Titus from the cabins

It is a short drive on country roads. Local roads take you out to County Route 25, the Duane Road, and from there you turn onto Johnson Road, which leads to the base area. The whole trip is about three and a half road miles. The mountain's phone number is (518) 483-3740.

Before you go, open the daily conditions report on the mountain's website. It shows whether the mountain is open that day, which chairs are running and how the trails are, and there are snow cams on the lower and upper mountains. After a storm, give the back roads a few extra minutes; the winter driving guide covers tires, plows and road reports.

Titus at a glance

Ski directories round some of these numbers differently. Most agree on the 2,025-foot summit and the 825-foot base, which puts the vertical at 1,200 feet; the state's ski areas association lists 1,250. Acreage runs from 200 to 380 depending on the count, and the lift total from eight to ten depending on whether the two carpet lifts are included. Read the snowfall loosely too: the mountain advertises about 150 inches a year, and an independent record kept from 2012 to 2025 puts the average nearer 130.

How the mountain is laid out

Titus is three mountains joined by connector trails. The lower mountain is the original Moon Valley ski area, which opened in 1960. It carries the lit trails for night skiing, and the learning area sits at its base. The middle mountain opened to the public in the early 1990s, and Huskie Lane, a trail added around 2021, is one of its newer runs. The upper mountain opened in 1989 with its own lodge. To get there you follow connector trails across a ski bridge over Johnson Road and through a tunnel under the road, then ride Chair VIII to the top. Outer Edge, a long trail with soft bumps, and Outer Outer, a tree run, are up there. The lower slopes are wide and forgiving. Up top the pitch gets steeper and the crowds thin out.

All eight chairs are fixed-grip Hall lifts, two triples and six doubles. There is no high-speed lift or gondola, so on a windy day dress for the ride up as much as for the run down. The trail network is sheltered and faces north-east, and the cold northern air helps the snow keep.

Lifts, hours and holiday periods

Plan your upper-mountain day for a Friday, a weekend or a holiday. On a regular Monday or Wednesday only chairs 3, 4 and 6 run, and on Tuesday and Thursday chairs 1, 3 and 4. Every lift runs Friday through Sunday and on holidays. In non-holiday weeks the mountain also rents the whole upper mountain, with its lodge, bar and cafeteria and a ski patrol, to private groups from Monday to Thursday, under the name Own the Upper.

Titus's usual lift hours have been 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday and 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Sunday. Titus calls these anticipated hours, because weather and special events move them, and the 2026-27 schedule can differ, so check the daily report the morning you go.

Holiday periods follow the school calendar: Christmas week, Martin Luther King Jr. weekend and Presidents' week. Every lift runs in those weeks, holiday ticket prices apply, and the military and college deals described below are not offered. The mountain closes on Christmas Day.

Trails, glades and terrain parks

The 53 trails split almost evenly by difficulty: 16 easy, 18 intermediate and 19 advanced or expert. A family with mixed abilities can ski the lower mountain together in the morning and send the strongest skiers up through the tunnel after lunch, on the days the upper chair runs.

Some terrain is left alone on purpose. The Forever Wild trails, named after the Adirondack land-protection phrase, are ungroomed and have no snowmaking, so what you ski is natural snow over a grassy base with the odd tree. Three Trees is one of them. They are marked on the trail map and on the mountain so nobody ends up there by accident, and the rest of the mountain is groomed. Save them for the days after a good storm.

The three terrain parks go by the name Moon Valley Parks, and the park crew keeps rails, boxes, jumps and jibs across them, from novice to advanced. Little Tikes Park is the beginner park, with ride-on rails to learn on. Monster Energy Park has rails, jibs and jumps for intermediate to expert riders. Mo's Stash Park, built in 2014, uses logs, rocks and other features harvested from the mountain itself. Two of the parks are lit for night skiing.

Night skiing

On the schedule Titus last posted, the lights come on at 4:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and the lifts keep turning until 9 p.m., on 15 lit trails and two terrain parks on the lower mountain. An all-day ticket or a season pass covers the night session, which turns a Saturday into a nine-to-nine ski day; Titus bills it as the longest ski day in New York. Cheaper night-only tickets are sold too.

For cabin guests the timing works well. Ski the morning, drive back for lunch and an hour in the hot tub, and return when the lights come on. Between runs, the Lower Lodge has three fireplaces and Mo's Moon Valley Grill. In late December the sun sets around 4:20 p.m., so bring a warmer layer and a spare pair of gloves for the evening.

Night hours have changed from season to season, so check the night-skiing page before you plan a trip around them.

Tubing and Neon Night Tubing

The tubing hill has its own 550-foot conveyor lift that carries you back to the top, so nobody walks uphill. Double tubes let a child under 42 inches ride with an adult, and there is music the whole way down. Tubing runs on weekends and holidays and on Friday and Saturday evenings; the hours have been 5 to 9 p.m. on Friday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Buying tickets online holds your spot.

Neon Night Tubing opened in late 2025. Thousands of LED lights along the hill pulse, fade and change with the beat of the music. It sold out night after night in its first winter, so book before you drive over. There are no strobe lights, but the show includes flashing lights and fast movement, which may not suit guests who are sensitive to them.

The rules are short. One person per single tube, no exceptions. Only Titus tubes are allowed. No ski boots, snowboard boots or ski equipment in the tubing area. Reckless tubers lose their tickets. Groups of 15 or more get a group rate, posted at $25 a person for all-day tubing, and a pizza party package bundles two pizzas, ten all-day tubing tickets and a full session in the warming pavilion to yourselves.

Lessons and the learning area

The Titus ski school is accredited by PSIA-AASI, the Professional Ski Instructors of America and American Association of Snowboard Instructors, the nonprofit that certifies snowsports instructors. It teaches private lessons, after-school programs and a never-ever program for people who have never been on snow. Book lessons through the mountain's online store or at the mountain; times and prices are set each season. First-timers start at the learning area at the base, which has a surface lift and a beginner chair. A carpet lift replaced the old rope tow there in 2014, and an Adirondack-style lean-to went up at the top of it for the mascots, Titus Teddy and Shredding Betty.

The mountain's first-timer advice is worth following. Dress to stay warm and dry: no cotton, layers, one pair of warm socks, a hat or helmet, gloves or mittens with a shell, and goggles or sunglasses. Bring sunscreen, lip balm, extra clothes, a driver's license or credit card for the rental shop, and cash or a card for food. On arrival, park, buy your ticket, get your rentals, book the lesson and look over the trail map before the first run. Weekdays outside the holidays are the quiet time to learn.

STRIDE Adaptive Sports, a nonprofit whose coaches are volunteers, teaches adaptive skiing and snowboarding at Titus on Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3:30 p.m., and at other times when instructors are free. The lesson package has been $69 for two and a half hours of private instruction, with fitting and adaptive or standard equipment included, and a pass for an accompanying adult $40. Helmets are required and not provided. Register with STRIDE and sign its waivers before you ask for a date.

Races and the ski patrol

Titus runs a Challenge Race series all season on Saturday afternoons, open to skiers and snowboarders of every age, who race against others in their own age and gender class. Races start at 12:30 p.m. at Chair 1, on a course set on Sunset or Whistler. You get two runs, and the better one counts. Depending on the snow, a race is a giant slalom, a panel slalom or a slalom. Sign up in the rental lodge before 11 a.m. on race day, for the day or the whole season. Awards follow at the Race Shack at the bottom of the course, and every racer under 18 gets one. A coached race program for ages 5 to 18 runs nine Saturday mornings from the first Saturday in January, 9:30 a.m. to noon, for kids who can ride a chairlift on their own and handle blue-square terrain.

The ski patrol wears red jackets. The main patrol building is at the bottom of Chair IV, with help stations at the tops of Chairs I, IV and VIII, and on-mountain emergencies can be reported at (518) 483-3740. Titus posts the skier responsibility code: stay in control and able to stop, people ahead of you have the right of way, do not stop where you block a trail or cannot be seen from above, look uphill before you start down or merge, use devices that stop runaway equipment, obey the signs and keep off closed trails, and know how to load, ride and unload the lifts.

Tickets, passes and rentals

Lift tickets

Buy lift tickets online before you go. Prices depend on the date, and buying ahead saves up to 10 percent. A ticket is good from the moment you buy it until close that day, and an all-day ticket covers night skiing whenever it runs. For scale, the sample prices posted for Saturday, December 27, 2025, in Christmas week, were $79 for an adult, $64 for a junior and $69 for a senior; check the online store for your own dates.

Some deals are sold in person only. Each adult ticket bought brings one free ski or snowboard ticket for a child 5 or under. Active and retired military get $5 off a day ticket with ID, and so do college students; on Fridays both can ski all day for $30 with ID. Groups of 20 or more get one free ticket for every 20 bought.

Season passes

Titus season passes for 2026-27 have no blackout dates. The adult pass, for ages 30 to 64, was listed in spring 2026 at $549, and the junior pass for ages 6 to 12 and the senior pass for 65 to 69 at $399. Titus sells passes at spring and early-bird prices with payment plans, so check the current price before you buy. There are college, military and family-of-four passes too; the family pass covers two adults and two other pass holders, the college pass must be picked up in person with a student ID, and the military pass is for active-duty members.

A pass travels well. It takes 20 percent off lift tickets at Whiteface, Gore and Belleayre, brings buy-one-get-one tickets at Dry Hill and Holiday Mountain, and takes 15 percent off Titus's slopeside lodging and merchandise and 10 percent off at Mo's Moon Valley Grill. Canadian buyers get a $50 gift card per person.

Rentals and gear

The rental shop charges $25 for skis or a snowboard, $20 for boots and $5 for poles, and fits gear that is tuned, waxed and sized to you. Titus does not rent helmets, so bring your own, one for every skier and rider in the family. You can reserve rentals online when you buy a lift ticket, in limited numbers. A seasonal ski or board rental for the whole winter has been posted at $229, while stock lasts, and groups of 20 or more pay $30 plus tax for a ski, snowboard or snowblade package.

The shop staff set up rental skis and boards, and the mountain tunes your own gear. Small lockers are in the Customer Service Building and large ones in the Lower Lodge. There is free WiFi across the mountain, strongest in the two lodges, and an ATM in the Lower Lodge.

The Indy Pass at Titus

Titus is an Indy Pass resort. For 2026-27, both the Indy+ Pass, posted at $469 for adults and $299 for kids, and the Indy Base Pass, at $419 and $269, include two all-day or night tickets at each of more than 300 independent ski areas, plus 25 percent off a third day at each one. An Indy season runs from June 1 to May 31. Indy prices and deadlines change, and Indy has capped how many passes it will sell for 2026-27. If you already hold an unlimited season pass at an Indy resort, Titus included, the add-on versions cost $339 for the Base and $429 for the Indy+ for adults.

The Base pass carries blackout dates at some resorts, while the Indy+ has none anywhere. Titus has had no Indy blackout dates, but Indy finalizes the 2026-27 list in the fall, so check it before a holiday trip. No reservation is needed at Titus: bring photo ID, check in with customer service and go ski. If you need rentals, reserve them online ahead of time, since online rental stock is limited.

Food, lodges and skibanas

Titus has two lodges. On the main floor of the Lower Lodge, Mo's Moon Valley Grill has table service and a long menu, seven days a week. On the ground floor, the Titus Trading Post is the fast option, with hearty food, plenty of seating and poutine; it opens Friday through Sunday and every day in holiday periods. On the upper mountain, the Upper Lodge Cafeteria sells grab-and-go food on the same Friday-to-Sunday and holiday schedule.

Skibanas are the mountain's day-rental huts: furnished, heated and slopeside, with a reserved parking spot and a private restroom that locks. The mountain pitches them as a place to warm up between runs and suggests bringing your own cooler or slow cooker. They rent by the day only, and deluxe versions are offered too.

Cabin guests have a third choice. One guest wrote: "Close enough to Titus that we didn't hesitate to come back and forth for lunch."

Uphill skiing and cross-country trails

Titus sells a Skin & Ski ticket for people who climb on skins: $15, any age, any day, daylight hours only. Uphill skiers need that ticket or a season pass, must stay visible to downhill traffic and keep to the side of the trail, and may not ski down before 9 a.m. or after 4 p.m.

The mountain also borders cross-country trails groomed by the local Fish & Game Club. Snowshoers and cross-country skiers can ask about a discounted lift ticket that lets them use those trails, warm up in the lodge and get a ride back to the trails. For groomed networks with rentals, see the cross-country and snowshoeing guide.

Snow, season and events

Titus had not posted its 2026-27 dates in early October; it usually opens between mid-November and the week before Christmas and closes in late March or early April. On long-term averages the mountain gets about 23 inches of snow in December, 44 in January, 41 in February and 24 in March, which makes late January through February the surest bet for natural snow. Snowmaking covers about 150 acres, so a cold December can open trails before the big storms arrive.

Titus ends each winter with Mountain Madness, held on a Saturday in early or mid-March: a pancake breakfast with the mountain's own maple syrup, a family race, a poker run, pond skimming across a 50-foot pond, a cardboard sled race, free sugarhouse tours, a rail jam, live music and fireworks after dark. Each fall, on a Saturday in early October, it holds an Oktoberfest that has run for more than four decades, with vendors, free chairlift and hay rides and fireworks at dusk; the food and drink proceeds buy medical supplies for the ski patrol. The events calendar has the rest of the year.

The sugarhouse belongs to Moon Valley Maple, which Titus started on its own slopes in the 2012-13 season. That first spring it ran about 6,400 taps and made 2,000 gallons of syrup; the mountain's latest figure is 14,000 taps and 6,300 gallons in a season.

History of the ski area

Titus began as a family rope tow and has changed hands only a few times since.

When the Augustine estate sold, the area had been on the market for two years at an asking price of $2 million. The buyers were three brothers from the Malone area who grew up skiing there and already ran other businesses in the region, and they said the area would run unchanged that first winter, with the same management and the same family focus. The Moon Valley name still runs through the place: the grill, the parks and the maple operation all carry it.

Skiing Titus from the cabins

Staying three and a half miles away changes how a ski day goes. You can make the first chair without leaving in the dark, eat lunch at your own table, and run wet gloves and base layers through the cabin's washer and dryer overnight. On Fridays and Saturdays you can fit a soak between the day session and the lights. The journal post Ski Titus Mountain, Then Soak lays out a whole weekend that way.

The Modern Pine is the cabin dressed for skiing, with après-ski decor, a Jøtul gas stove and a hot tub its listing keeps open 24 hours; the ski cabins page compares all three. Titus rents ten slopeside houses of its own, and the largest sleeps 15. Each cabin here sleeps four, and The Modern Pine and The Aviator share one property, so two families with children 10 and up can book them side by side on the booking page.

Titus is less than a mile from the tracks, the old rail line the C7 snowmobile corridor follows, and it invites riders to stop in for lunch; see snowmobiling from the cabin door. For a second, bigger mountain, Whiteface in Wilmington has the greatest vertical drop in the East and is about 62 road miles south, and a Titus season pass takes 20 percent off its lift tickets. The Lake Placid and Whiteface guide covers that day.

Questions

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Facts on this page were checked against these sources in October 2026. Hours, fees and schedules change; confirm before you go.

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