Hot-tub cabins about three and a half road miles from Titus Mountain: which cabin fits your group, gear and lessons, the drive, and a ski weekend and week.
The cabins are about three and a half road miles from the base lodge at Titus Mountain, a family ski area with 53 trails on three mountains, and the listings put the drive at five to seven minutes. Each cabin sleeps four and has its own hot tub, a full kitchen and a washer and dryer, which covers most of what a ski trip needs between runs. Whiteface, where the 1980 Olympic alpine races were held, is about 62 road miles south for a bigger day. This page plans the trip around the skiing: which cabin, which dates, gear and lessons, the drive, and a weekend and a week laid out day by day.
Why ski from these cabins
Titus is close enough that the cabin works as your own base lodge. You can ski the first runs on fresh grooming, drive back for lunch at your own table, change into dry layers and be on the chairs again within the hour. A Titus day ticket is good from the time you buy it until close, so leaving at noon costs nothing, and the all-day ticket covers night skiing whenever it runs. On the schedule Titus last posted, the lower mountain stays lit until 9 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. The Titus Mountain guide has the lifts, trails, tickets and history; this page covers the trip around them.
The hot tub on The Modern Pine's deck in the snow
Three things in the listings matter most to skiers. Every cabin has a private hot tub, and The Modern Pine's listing keeps its tub available all year and open 24 hours. Every cabin has a washer and a dryer, so gloves, socks and base layers are dry by morning. And two of the cabins, The Modern Pine and The Aviator, have a Jøtul GF 160 DV gas stove, the first thing to switch on when you come in off the mountain.
Guests who came to ski say the same in their own words. One wrote after a March stay at The Modern Pine:
"A wonderful cabin, close to Titus, and with all the amenities you could want for a weekend away skiing."
The Modern Tiny Home in deep snow under a blue sky
Which cabin for which group
All three cabins sleep four in a main bedroom and a bunk room, with one bathroom, and all three are the same short drive from the lifts. The differences are in the details.
Your group
Cabin
Why
A couple or four friends who want the ski theme
The Modern Pine
Après-ski decor, the Jøtul stove, a hot tub open 24 hours and a large screened room on the deck for knocking snow off boots and boards
Two couples
Any of the three
Each has a main bedroom and a bunk room; The Aviator's and The Modern Tiny Home's listings put a king bed in the first and a queen bed and a single in the second
A family with children 10 and up
The Aviator
One guest called it "perfect for our family of four with kids bedroom on one side of the house and ours on the other side," and it has the same Jøtul stove as the Pine
Skiers who also snowshoe
The Modern Tiny Home
A short trail from the cabin leads to an observation deck over a pond, shared with the neighboring cabin's guests when it is booked; this cabin has no gas stove
Eight people
The Modern Pine and The Aviator
Two cabins on one property and one gravel drive, each with its own deck, hot tub and fire pit
Twelve people
All three
Add The Modern Tiny Home, on a second property
Read the house rules before you book. The listings for The Modern Pine and The Modern Tiny Home say the cabins are not suitable for children under 10, ask that the booking guest be 25 or older, and ask for picture ID and a guest list at booking, and all three listings carry Airbnb's flag for not suitable for children and infants. A ski trip here is for adults and for families whose children are 10 or older; see family stays and, for two or three cabins, group stays.
Dogs need a plan too. The Modern Pine and The Modern Tiny Home allow house-trained pets under 25 pounds, no cats, kept off the furniture and beds; The Aviator allows one house-trained pet, with a 25-pound limit, kept off the furniture. None of the three lets a pet be left alone in the cabin, so on a ski day someone stays behind with the dog. Pet-friendly stays and bringing your dog have the rest.
The gravel drive and the cabins among the pines
Choosing your dates
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. Natural snow builds through the middle of the season, so for the surest conditions aim for late January through February; the Titus guide has the snowfall month by month.
Titus treats Christmas week, Martin Luther King Jr. weekend and Presidents' week as holiday periods, when every lift runs, and it closes on Christmas Day. On a regular Monday to Thursday, three chairs turn on a rotation and the upper mountain's chairs wait for Friday; from Friday through Sunday every lift runs. A weekday trip trades some terrain for quieter slopes, and weekdays outside the holidays are the quiet time to learn.
The cabins' own times shape the trip as much as the mountain's. Check-in is after 4 p.m. and checkout before 11 a.m. at all three, so a Friday arrival leaves time for the lights if you are in by about five, and a Sunday departure still leaves a morning on the snow if you pack the car the night before. The winter weekend guide lists the long weekends and events of the 2026-27 season.
Passes that work at Titus
Titus is on the Indy Pass, and Indy's page for it shows no blackout dates; check it again before a holiday trip. For 2026-27 both Indy passes include two all-day or all-night tickets at each partner ski area and two trail-pass days at each cross-country partner. Two more partners are south of the cabins. Mt. Pisgah, the Village of Saranac Lake's small ski hill about 43 road miles away, has a T-bar, 15 skiable acres, about 330 feet of vertical and lights for night skiing. Scotts Cobble Nordic Center in Lake Placid is an Indy cross-country partner. An Indy holder can fill a week with two days at Titus, two at Mt. Pisgah and two on Nordic skis. Jay Peak, Smugglers' Notch, Bolton Valley and Burke in Vermont are partners too, a longer drive away.
A Titus season pass has its own perks for 2026-27: 20 percent off lift tickets at Whiteface, Gore and Belleayre, buy-one-get-one tickets at Dry Hill and at Holiday Mountain, and a $50 gift card per person for Canadian pass holders, with no blackout dates. If you buy day tickets instead, buy them online; Titus advertises savings of up to 10 percent for buying ahead.
Renting gear and booking lessons
At Titus
The Titus rental shop rents skis or a snowboard, boots and poles, and you can reserve rentals online when you buy the lift ticket, in limited numbers. It does not rent helmets, so pack one for every skier and rider. The ski school is accredited by PSIA-AASI and teaches private lessons and a never-ever program for first-timers, and lessons can be booked online. The Titus guide has the rental prices and the learning area.
At Whiteface
Whiteface rents from two places: the Bear Den Lodge, for beginners and anyone taking a lesson, and the Main Base Lodge, for intermediate and advanced skiers and riders and the demo fleet. Its rental packages include a helmet, you can buy them online ahead of time, and multi-day renters get free overnight storage at the mountain. Have each skier's age, height, weight, shoe size and ability level, Type I, II or III, ready for the counter. The tuning shop will sharpen edges, resurface and wax a pair dropped off at lunch in 30 minutes or less, or keep it overnight.
Whiteface teaches its lessons at the Bear Den Learning Center. Group lessons for adults and teenagers 13 and up, at beginner to novice level, have run from 9 to 11 a.m., and Junior Adventure is the group program for ages 7 to 12. Reserve ahead and buy the lift ticket separately, since rentals and tickets are not part of a lesson, and arrive at least an hour early on a weekday and an hour and a half on a weekend. Helmets are required for anyone 17 or under in a lesson or program. The Bear Den has its own parking, lodge, ticket sales, rentals and lockers, with a free shuttle from the parking lots to the lodge.
Nordic gear
For a day on cross-country skis, the Visitor Interpretive Center at Paul Smith's College, about 31 road miles south, rents skis and snowshoes from Thursday to Monday. The cross-country guide has its prices and passes and the other Nordic centers.
Getting your skis here
Most skiers drive, and a roof box or rack keeps wet skis and boards out of the car. The routes in, with road miles from every direction, are on the getting to the cabins page, and winter driving covers tires, plows and the last miles in snow. Coming from Canada, check the crossing hours before you leave home; the border guide lists the ports open to U.S.-bound traffic.
Flying in with skis takes planning. Cape Air, the airline at Adirondack Regional Airport near Saranac Lake, carries skis as a special item, space available, and the length it can take depends on which of its small planes flies your route; airports near the cabins has the limits and the other airports. If your skis will not make it, fly with boots and helmets and rent the rest at Titus or Whiteface.
The drive to the lifts and parking
From the cabins, about two miles of local roads lead out to County Route 25, the Duane Road, and Johnson Road leads from it to the Titus base at 215 Johnson Road, about 3.4 road miles in all. After an overnight storm, give the back roads a few extra minutes. In mid-January the sun rises at about 7:30 a.m., so the drive to a 9 a.m. first chair is in daylight.
Titus has two free lots: the lower one at 215 Johnson Road, where you buy tickets, pick up rentals and meet your lesson, and an upper one at 636 Fayette Road by Chairs 7 and 8, which turn only from Friday to Sunday and on holidays. The ski-day post explains when each lot makes sense, and the Lake Placid and Whiteface guide covers Whiteface's lots and the drive through Wilmington Notch.
Back at the cabin, all three listings offer free parking on the premises. Park facing out, so you can leave forward if it snows overnight. Every cabin is reached by a few steps up to the deck, so walk them in winter boots and carry the ski boots in a bag.
What the cabins have and what to pack
Everything in the left column comes from the three listings. If something is not listed, plan on bringing it.
In the cabins
Bring from home
A washer and a dryer in every cabin
Helmets for everyone skiing or riding at Titus, which does not rent them
A full kitchen with a stove, oven, microwave, kettle, coffee maker and toaster, and pots and pans, oil, salt and pepper
Spices and anything you cook with beyond oil, salt and pepper
A dishwasher at The Modern Pine and The Aviator
Shampoo, which none of the three listings includes
A hair dryer and bed linens
A boot dryer, if you own one; none is listed
Wifi with an ethernet connection, and a TV
Swimsuits, and sandals or boots for the walk to the hot tub
A private hot tub, a fire pit and a grill
Hand warmers and a spare pair of gloves for the night session
A first aid kit and a fire extinguisher
A headlamp for the walk from the car after dark
Ski racks, boot dryers, lockers, sleds and snowshoes are not on any listing. The Modern Pine's large screened room on the deck gives you a sheltered place to knock off the snow; at any of the three, ask the host where skis and boards should go, or keep them in the car. Phone coverage is thin as well: The Modern Pine's listing says only Verizon and AT&T serve the property and the area, and that the well-insulated cabin weakens reception inside, so read the mountain's morning conditions report on the wifi.
A ski weekend with two mountains
This plan gives a long weekend a day at each mountain, and it saves the bigger one for the drive home if you live to the south. Driving from the cabins to Albany by way of Whiteface comes to about 196 road miles, against about 188 on the direct route, so the detour adds only about seven miles. If you head home north or west, give Sunday morning to Titus instead.
Day
Plan
Friday
Check in after 4 p.m., with groceries bought in Malone on the way; the groceries page lists the stores. If you are in by five on a night-skiing Friday, drive over for the lights. If not, turn on the stove, take a soak and go to bed early.
Saturday
Titus all day, with every lift running, the upper mountain included. Ski the morning, have lunch and a short soak at the cabin, ski the afternoon, and on a night-skiing Saturday stay for the lights. Wet layers go in the dryer before bed, and the car gets packed.
Sunday
Check out early and drive south to Whiteface, about 62 road miles and an hour and a half. Whiteface's lifts have run from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., and a Titus season pass takes 20 percent off the ticket. Ski until the lifts stop, then head home from Wilmington.
A full week lets the weekday schedule work for you. Titus runs three chairs on a rotation from Monday to Thursday, which suits lessons and easy days, and every lift from Friday on. The midweek days go to the places that are open midweek.
Sunday. Arrive after 4 p.m., shop in Malone and buy the week's Titus tickets online.
Monday. Titus, with Chairs 3, 4 and 6 turning on the posted Monday rotation. Book the beginners' lessons for today, and come back to the cabin for lunch.
Tuesday. Whiteface, about 62 road miles south. Start at the Bear Den for lessons or the Main Base Lodge for everyone else, and get there an hour before any lesson.
Wednesday. A slow morning, then an afternoon at Titus on the same rotation as Monday. At The Modern Tiny Home, walk the trail to the pond deck on snowshoes if you brought them.
Thursday. A Nordic day. Ski the groomed loops at the Visitor Interpretive Center in Paul Smiths, eat lunch in Saranac Lake, then ski Mt. Pisgah under the lights. In 2025-26 it opened from 3 to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, with a $35 day pass and a $20 half day; check its hours for the new season first. The drive home is about 43 road miles.
Friday. Titus with every lift running, the upper mountain included, and the lights until 9 p.m. on the last posted schedule.
Saturday. Check out before 11 a.m. Ski Titus in the morning with the car packed, or stop at Whiteface on the way south.
Check each place's hours the week before you go, since small ski areas change them with the snow. The Saranac Lake and Paul Smiths guide covers lunch and the village on the Nordic day.
How a ski day runs from the cabin
The rhythm stays the same whatever the plan: first chair on fresh grooming, back to the cabin around noon for lunch and a short soak, the afternoon on the hill, and on Fridays and Saturdays the lights. On January 18, 2027, the sun sets at the cabins at 4:47 p.m. and the last of the light goes at about 5:15, so an afternoon session ends at dusk and a night session runs entirely under the lights. The ski-day post lays out a Saturday hour by hour, and the après-ski post covers the evenings at The Modern Pine.
Two house rules belong in the routine. In the winter months, the listings for The Modern Pine and The Modern Tiny Home ask you not to turn the heater off and to leave it set to 60 when you check out, since turning it off risks frozen pipes. At checkout, the same listings ask you to wash the dishes, set the hot tub to 95, secure its cover, take out the trash and lock up.
Between those, the cabin does the work. The dryer takes the gloves and base layers, the stove at The Modern Pine or The Aviator takes the chill off the room, and wet gear stays well away from it. The post on the Jøtul stoves explains how they run.
Days off the slopes
Not everyone in a ski group skis every day, and the off days have plenty to fill them.
Tubing. Titus has a three-lane tubing hill; the Titus guide has the sessions and the rules.
Snowshoes and Nordic skis. State forest trails a few miles from the cabins and groomed networks to the south; see cross-country skiing and snowshoeing.
The Saranac Lake Winter Carnival in February, with its ice palace; see the carnival guide.
Lake Placid's Olympic venues, indoors and out; see the Olympic sites.
Guests have mixed the mountain and the city on one trip. A February guest at The Modern Pine called it a "Fantastic long weekend of skiing with a day trip to Montreal." And if you buy a lift ticket, then decide the day's conditions are more than you want to take on, New York law gives you a way to hand it back, as the next section explains.
New York's rules for skiers
New York writes the skier's side of the deal into law, in the Safety in Skiing Code, Article 18 of the General Obligations Law. Among the duties it puts on every skier:
Ski only in areas designated for skiing, and never on a trail or slope marked closed.
Stay within your ability, and in control of speed and course at all times.
Read the posted information before skiing a slope or trail, and follow the ski area's directions.
Yield to other skiers when you enter a trail or start downhill, and do not stop where a collision is likely.
Wear retention straps or other devices that stop runaway skis.
Report any injury to the ski area before you leave, and do not leave the scene of an accident that injured someone else until the ski area operator arrives, except to get help.
On a chairlift, use the restraint device as posted, stay on the lift if it stops until instructions or help arrive, and keep loose scarves, clothing and long hair from tangling in it.
The same article requires each skier to read the "Warning to Skiers" posted where lift tickets are sold. It also gives the buyer a refund, in the amount paid, of any lift ticket returned to the ski area intact and unused, when the buyer declares that he or she is unprepared or unwilling to ski because of the risks of the sport or the duties the law imposes. The Titus guide covers the ski patrol and the mountain's own code. When you are ready to book, compare the cabins on the comparison page and pick dates on the booking page.
Questions
How far are the cabins from Titus Mountain's lifts?
About three and a half road miles to the base lodge at 215 Johnson Road, and the listings put the drive at five to seven minutes. About two miles of local roads lead out to County Route 25, the Duane Road, and Johnson Road leads from it to the base. After a storm, allow a few extra minutes; see winter driving.
Which cabin is best for a ski trip?
The Modern Pine is dressed for après-ski, with a Jøtul gas stove, a hot tub open 24 hours and a large screened room on the deck where you can knock off the snow. The Aviator has the same stove. The Modern Tiny Home has no gas stove but a trail to a pond deck. For eight skiers, book The Modern Pine and The Aviator, which share one property.
Can I rent skis and a helmet near the cabins?
Titus rents skis or a snowboard, boots and poles, and you can reserve them online with your lift ticket, but it does not rent helmets, so bring your own. At Whiteface, about 62 road miles south, the rental packages include a helmet. The Visitor Interpretive Center at Paul Smith's College rents cross-country skis and snowshoes from Thursday to Monday.
Is Titus Mountain on the Indy Pass?
Yes. For 2026-27 the Indy Pass includes two all-day or all-night tickets at Titus, and Indy's page for Titus shows no blackout dates. Mt. Pisgah in Saranac Lake, about 43 road miles from the cabins, is an Indy partner too, and Scotts Cobble Nordic Center in Lake Placid is an Indy cross-country partner, so one pass can cover several days of a ski week. Check Mt. Pisgah's hours for the season before you plan a day there.
Do the cabins have ski storage or a boot dryer?
Neither is listed. Every cabin has a washer and a dryer for gloves and base layers, and The Modern Pine has a large screened room on the deck where you can knock off the snow. Bring a boot dryer if you own one, and ask the host where skis and boards should go, or keep them in the car.
Can I get a refund on a New York lift ticket I did not use?
New York's Safety in Skiing Code gives the buyer a refund, in the amount paid, of a lift ticket returned to the ski area intact and unused, when the buyer declares that he or she is unprepared or unwilling to ski because of the risks of the sport or the duties the law puts on skiers. The same law requires skiers to read the posted Warning to Skiers.
Is Whiteface close enough for a day of skiing?
Yes. Whiteface is about 62 road miles south, roughly an hour and a half, and its lifts have run from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. If you drive home toward Albany, skiing it on the last day makes the trip about 196 road miles against 188 direct. See the Lake Placid and Whiteface guide.
Sources
Facts on this page were checked against these sources in October 2026. Hours, fees and schedules change; confirm before you go.
The après-ski cabin: a Jøtul gas stove between two picture windows, a large screened room on the deck, a hot tub open all year, and Titus Mountain minutes away.
Dressed for après-ski, with vintage ski posters, a Jøtul GF 160 DV gas stove that heats the room fast and a hot tub the listing keeps open 24 hours. The screened room on the deck is a place to drop wet gear.
The same Jøtul stove and a large open deck with its own hot tub. One guest skied Titus for two full days from here; another built a cross-country weekend around it.
One guest went snowboarding at Titus Mountain, 'just a few mins away', and one family has come back to this cabin for years. It heats with its heating system rather than a stove.
The Modern PineCabin 2 · 2 bd · 1 ba · sleeps 4
Aviation theme
Stone fire pit & pond trail
