Loon Mountain in the White Mountain National Forest offers year-round activities. In winter, you can enjoy skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, and ice skating on over 300 acres of terrain. Loon Mountain Resort has 61 trails, eight tree skiing areas, a superpipe, a halfpipe, and a snow tubing park. You can also take a scenic gondola ride to the summit and explore the glacial caves. In summer and fall, you can try ziplining, mountain biking, disc golf, bungee trampoline, climbing wall, Segway tours, and more. Loon Mountain is also home to the New England Ski Museum and hosts various events and festivals throughout the year. 

Loon Mountain Resort is located in the heart of the White Mountain National Forest, operating in partnership with the Forest Service.

In the decades prior to 1911, the unregulated logging practices of private timber companies in the White Mountains had resulted in a damaged landscape susceptible to both fire and flood. Fires had burned thousands of acres, and flash floods affected the water power necessary to the mills of major industrial centers downstream, such as Manchester, New Hampshire, and Lowell, Massachusetts. Concerns over losses to industry, business, and tourism, and the growing conservation movement led to citizen action. The Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) and Society for Protection of New Hampshire Forests (SPNHF) spearheaded an effort to ensure the permanent protection of the White Mountains from further depredation. After years of lobbying and intense public pressure, Senator John Weeks of Massachusetts, a native of Lancaster, New Hampshire, introduced legislation that became known as the Weeks Act. The Weeks Act was passed by Congress in 1911, appropriating 9 million dollars to purchase 6 million acres of land in the Eastern U.S. In turn, this led to the creation of the White Mountain National Forest (WMNF) in 1918, and twenty-one other national forests throughout the north and southeast. Many of the groups who were instrumental in the passage of the Weeks Act, including the SPNHF and the AMC, are still active today, and the WMNF has grown from 7,000 acres to almost 800,000. Today, the reforested mountains and hillsides supply forest products and provide magnificent recreational opportunities while maintaining healthy watersheds and ecosystems.