There is also a new leadership team, an innovative plan for workforce housing, and specifics on the type of homes that will be built, some of which could be up for sale as early next winter.

Both men are highly respected, sophisticated business professionals with international reputations and a long, distinguished history with Wintergreen.

For Michael Donovan and LF Payne, who now have the final say on Crawfords Place, workforce housing is one of the prime drivers of this project.

This year’s aggressive program, set for May 1-3, includes 14 themed “walks” in Wintergreen’s woods with highly trained specialists, 10 lectures by both accredited scientists and nature activists, a hands-on art workshop, and ends with a Sunday morning “exploratory.”

It was mostly good news at the standing-room-only presentation on environmental issues concerning Wintergreen put on by the Nature Foundation at Wintergreen’s Josh Palumbo.

There is a clear message from Google Gemini AI's analysis of the resort’s pricing for season tickets in 2025, 2026, and 2027.

The plan is described as a “roadmap” to grow its “impact” over the next five years, starting this year.

If approved, Virginia’s redistricting referendum scheduled for April 21 could significantly impact voters in Wintergreen within Nelson and Augusta counties.

Those homeowners here who typically either waited a few days for a thaw or shoveled it off their driveways and walkways themselves could not move the sleet-snow that froze rock-hard in single-digit temperatures.

Is this year’s Virginia winter hard for deer? Yes. But don’t make it worse by feeding them.

Wintergreen Fire & Rescue is replacing what it calls the “squad truck” that goes into action on calls such as car accidents with entrapment, rescues requiring rope, injured hikers requiring evacuation, and major fires.

Here to Stay in Wintergreen has gone from 73 members when it started to 283 in six years.

Geologist Chuck Bailey has a theory.

This report was posted on the Facebook page of the Nelson County Sheriff’s Office on December 31 by Sheriff Mark E. Embrey.

Our two-year anniversary seems like a good time to give everyone an update and to talk about our path forward. 

The Wintergreen Bulletin Board's audience continued to grow. Subscribers were more active than ever in sending in recommendations, requests, news, and items for sale.

Wintergreen Fire and Rescue Chief Curtis Sheets testified before the Federal Lands Subcommittee of the Natural Resources Committee in the United States Congress asking for support for the "Wintergreen Egress Act" which would direct the National Park Service to approve an emergency egress route for the Wintergreen community onto the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Besides Bailey's welcoming remarks, the video here includes comments from Nature Foundation at Wintergreen board chair Brent Douglass and the new full-time Executive Director, Elizabeth Long.

When asked at the Wintergreen Sporting Club’s Christmas party at Belties on Thursday night if the breakfast and lunch restaurant was now available to others to rent, Belties co-owner Scott DeFusco confirmed to the WBB with an enthusiastic “Yes!”

SilverStar is larger than Jackson Hole, Copper Mountain, or Breckenridge, with a modern lift fleet and plenty of lodging in the base village.