Ski Resorts Data

There are hundreds of ski resorts across North America with dozens of reputable websites offering information on at least a subset of these ski resorts. The challenge is finding a nearly complete dataset with the variables important to resort goers. Many sources offer "Top 10" or "Top 20" type results, and APIs are scarce in this realm. Some of the variables of interest can be summarized by:

• Consistent Resort Naming
• Exact Coordinates and General Locations
• Ratings Across Multiple Facets
• Pricing
• Seasonal Openings and Closings
• Pass Options

To accomplish this, and due to the lack of API infrastructure in this realm, data was scraped and aggregated across multiple sources.

• Main Ski Resort Data: [Skiresort.info]
• Epic Pass Resorts: [Epic]
• Ikon Pass Resorts: [Ikon]
• Major Geographical Regions within the United States: [US Major Regions]
• Major Geographical Regions within Canada: [Canada Major Regions]
• Seasonal Openings and Closing: [Kaggle Seasonal]

Aquiring the Data

Aside from the Kaggle dataset, all other sources required webscraping. See [Source - Ski Resorts] for the Python code used during this process.