SAM Coverage
Summer Operations
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Tell Guests to Get Lost
In the quest to find ways to enhance off-season revenue, some resorts have turned to a centuries-old form of entertainment. Many guests are responding…
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Skates, Boards, Plywood and Asphalt
Slant walls, pyramids, fun boxes, corner elbows and rails … all part of the jargon that describes the hits for a successful skatepark. For…
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Maximum Golf School
It begins with a call from Brenda offering advice; things like, as you approach the resort there is a 25 mph sign, after you…
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More Than a Drive
For golf-course designer Ron Garl, a driving range is a driving range, whether for practice or for teaching. “The short game—from 100 yards in—is…
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Golf Meets Frisbee
What sport tests players against an established par, uses tees and holes, has a professional tournament circuit and uses Frisbees to score? Yes, Frisbees.…
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Tarzan for a Day
Take equal parts Tarzan and James Bond, add a safety tether and mix with rope bridges and zip lines in the trees and you’ve…
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Summer Toys Provide Off-Season Thrills
Who says summer has to be all planning and no play? Because of an array of new off-season toys, ski and snowboard resorts have…
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Hosting Company Picnics
When Kirk Hanna purchased Mt. Hood Skibowl, Ore., and started pulling it out of bankruptcy 12 years ago, he knew he’d have to develop…
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Trails for Mountain Bikes
In the seventies, mountain bikers discovered themselves. In the eighties, ski areas discovered mountain bikers. In the nineties, bureaucrats discovered mountain bikers—or so it…
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Score One For A Golf Developer
The following story on enviromental opposition is reprinted from the Golf Business Green Sheet of the Golf Development Institute, Ignacio, California. PURCHASE, NY —…