Free Ski Game Rebuilds 56 Real Mountains. Snowshoe Isn’t One Yet.
LEJUP runs in a web browser and takes skis or a snowboard. For Eastern skiers it stops at New England, with southern Vermont’s Stratton the closest to home.
The LEJUP ski game is a free online ski game that wants you to know the fall line. Its makers bill it as 56 real mountains you can ski or snowboard in a browser, on a computer or on a phone held sideways, which makes it a browser snowboard game too. Play LEJUP.
Studio Zalktis is Oregon skier Zintars Beldavs, who started with Mount Hood and kept adding hills players asked for. The ground is real elevation data, USGS lidar in the U.S. Call them real trail maps with an asterisk: the runs and lifts come from OpenStreetMap, not resort brochures. An in-game “How true is it?” panel says which parts are invented, and the developer says the game is not affiliated with any ski area.
Now the bad news for this region. No Mid-Atlantic mountain is in this ski game with real mountains: no Snowshoe, no Wisp, no Seven Springs. The closest are in New England, led by southern Vermont’s Stratton, the southernmost Eastern entry. Vermont also has Killington, Sugarbush, Bolton Valley, Stowe and Smugglers’ Notch, and Jay Peak, with Pats Peak in New Hampshire and Sugarloaf in Maine. Tremblant and Michigan’s Boyne are in, too.
The game has a “Suggest a mountain or a fix” button. Until somebody’s home hill makes the cut, the nearest real run is still a drive; the MTNinfo map can help pick one.