View Ski resorts and slopes on Google Maps

With winter fast approaching, Google Street View has started to add snow covered Ski resorts to the locations you can visit in Google Maps. All the current locations are from resorts in the US and Canada, and allow you to explore some famous ski slopes without fear of breaking anything.

What is missing from these Street View ski resorts is some direction – movement doesn’t look quite as slick as in urban settings, because it’s not easy to see which direction you should be going! Nevertheless, there are some great images here, and it means you can get a good idea of what to expect if you take a holiday there. Here’s hoping Google adds some more worldwide resorts, too.

You can view everything from the Google Street View ski resorts gallery, as well as a collection of some of the more unusual places they have photoed.