This New Hampshire Ikon Mountain Just Filed Plans for a Whole Fourth Peak
Loon Mountain filed a plan for a fourth peak with 280 acres and four lifts above downtown Lincoln, which would take it to 955 skiable acres at full build-out.
Loon Mountain in Lincoln, New Hampshire, announced on Oct. 6 that it has submitted a proposal to add a fourth peak to the resort. The plan covers 280 acres of new skiable terrain on the western side of the mountain, overlooking downtown Lincoln, served by four new lifts. If it is approved and fully built, Loon says it would offer 955 skiable acres, a 137 percent increase over the terrain open today.
The idea is older than most of the people who will ski it. Loon founder and former New Hampshire governor Sherman Adams sketched four distinct lift-served peaks in the 1960s, and the resort is framing this filing as the last piece of that original map. It is the newest item in Flight Path: 2030, the ten-year capital plan Loon launched in 2020.
What the fourth peak would include
- Terrain: up to 145 acres of traditional trails and up to 135 acres of tree skiing.
- Lifts: four aerial lifts rising roughly 1,500 vertical feet. NewEnglandSkiIndustry.com reports two of them would be detachables, with the shorter one open for night skiing.
- Buildings: a summit lodge at 2,324 feet with dining, sightseeing and event space, plus a mid-mountain lodge looking down on town.
Loon president and general manager Brian Norton pitched the new peak as a fix for a gap in the trail network. "The lower trails will give skiers and snowboarders confidence to move up, beyond the trails of Timbertown Quad, without a big jump in difficulty," he said, adding that stronger skiers would get "classic, winding New England trails and wide-open cruisers" plus challenging trees.
Do not plan a trip around it yet
Loon does not own any of the land. Most of it sits inside the White Mountain National Forest, and the rest belongs to South Peak Resort, a separately owned business whose developer, Mark Bogosian, is backing the plan. The U.S. Forest Service has accepted the proposal for review, which is a procedural step and not an approval. A federal Environmental Assessment comes first and is expected to take about 12 months. After that, Loon says local and federal permits are still needed before it can name any timeline, and the build would roll out in phases.
What skiers can count on sooner is Black Ridge, the 272-acre expert glade pod off North Peak that remains on schedule for winter 2027-28. We covered that project in September in our Black Ridge report. Black Ridge alone would lift Loon to about 675 acres, and the fourth peak would add the next 280 on top. Together they would make Loon the largest ski area in New Hampshire by a wide margin, ahead of Bretton Woods.
Read the full announcement on Loon's news page. For this winter, the Loon Mountain encyclopedia page has terrain, lodging and getting-there details, and Loon is included on the Ikon Pass and Boyne's New England Pass.