Perfect North Slopes has been one of the region’s favorite winter destinations for 45 years, hosting a range of skill levels on 23 ski trails and 25 tubing lanes from early December through early March. Daily, weekly, and season passes are available, with skis, snowboards, boots, poles, and helmets on site to rent.
It’s not exactly the Rocky Mountains in Indiana, but Perfect North is able to make its own snow when temperatures are at or below freezing. Their sophisticated network of underground pipes pumps water from the property’s lake to snow guns that can quickly lay down a solid base of snow. It doesn’t hurt when we get natural snowfall like what the region saw in December.
Snow conditions, chair lift access, and trail and terrain park availability are posted daily on the company’s Snow Report website. First-come-first-served group lessons are offered hourly seven days a week to anyone with a lift ticket and equipment. Private lessons can be arranged for skiers as young as 4 years old as well as total beginners of all ages.
Clyde and Ella Mae Perfect, high school sweethearts in Colerain Township, moved their growing family to a southeastern Indiana cattle farm in 1965, converting part of the hilly land to ski slopes in 1980. Perfect North would add ski runs and chair lifts over the years and embrace snowboarding and tubing. The family-run company recently acquired ski resorts in West Virginia and Michigan.
Two area athletes who got their starts on Perfect North slopes are heading to the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy: Nick Goepper (freestyle skiing/halfpipe) and Quinn Dehlinger (freestyle skiing/aerials).
Photographs by Grant Moxley