Conditions: Great, but strong winds blew a lot of tree debris onto the trail. A little sticky skating due to a warmer wagon my skis.
Best ski of the season this morning despite 2 degrees with a 20-mph wind. Bundle up, cover your face, and have fun! Definitely worth the $6 day use fee to use a restroom and have space to change out of sweaty clothes.

(Bill Barthen)

Conditions: Fair skate deck, marginal classic tracks. What snow there is has set up very firmly, although not too icy.
Some bare spots appearing on hills, nothing the full trail width though. Classic tracks are glazed but are getting pretty thin in some areas and even some areas of dirt poking through.

(Alex Popp)

Conditions: Freshly groomed trails this morning! All are open. Excellent conditions for skating and marginal for classic due to presence of oak leaves in the tracks. Some grooming on classics tracks has been done and some areas are free of oak leaves, but overall, highly recommend skating.
Stillwater and Minneapolis area skiers, come on over! Sunny and brilliant today. Non-skiers, bring your snowshoes and enjoy the snowshoeing trails in and around Tower Ridge while your friends or spouse skis! Wine and a picnic indoors or out at the picnic tables, to cap off your day!

(Emily Blaskey)

Very good conditions for skating. Freshly groomed fast powder over a very firm deck. Very occasional spots of dirt poking up and short stretches with forest litter. Classic tracks were mostly reset but the wind put lots of oak leaves in them. The County continues their inexplicable method of not setting tracks on hills or through intersections.

(Mark Blaskey)

Conditions: Superb!
Our recent snowfall followed up by perfect grooming, makes Tower Ridge the destination ski area at the moment. Full coverage for downhills; thinning areas are no longer a problem. Classic tracks are excellent as well, without the usual oak leaves. All trails are open.

(Emily Blaskey)

Conditions: Thin, but mostly good cover for skating. Classic tracks on a portion of the system with variable conditions.
Had a great skate ski outing here on Saturday. The trails are hanging in there. Most of the coverage was good with scattered dirty spots. Some of the off shoot hills were a bit hairy though. The main trails were quite nice with enough loose snow to get an edge. Classic tracks were set a large portion of the tails, but had some washouts and leafy spots. It was well worth the drive from the Twin Cities.

(Dick Stardig)

Overall very good conditions: complete snow coverage of the trails with some thin spots, forest litter, and roughly granulated bands left by the tracks of the Track Truck when I was there at 9:00 a.m. All trails were groomed. Fast, firm, sugary snow. Good edge control on 99% of the trails. Classic: The tracks are a week old and there are many stretches with oak leaves in them and I do not know if new tracks were going to be set.

(Mark Blaskey)

Conditions: Good to very good; no bare spots or ice due to 1" snowfall on Monday. All trails are open and nicely groomed.
Worth the trip from the Twin Cities. 3 K plus trails lit for night skiing. Beautiful chalet equipped with WI-FI.

(Susan Rockwood)

The trail was in surprisingly good shape for our snow conditions. Classic skied the outside loop. Where there was set tracks they were many times too thin to ski on. I mainly skied on the skate deck and had a great time. The skate deck only had a couple areas where it was very thin.

(Mike Mahoney)

Conditions: Surprisingly nice. Firm and fast skating. Variable track.
Snow is thin. Effortless skating.

(Archie Ecker)