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Killington Resort and Pico Mountain are more than destinations for outdoor recreation. As major employers, community partners, and gathering places in Central Vermont, they also play an active role in supporting the people and organizations that make this region home.
Through Upward & Outward, Killington and Pico bring together their work in community giving, environmental stewardship, outdoor access, and employee support. The initiative is built around three core tenets—Respect, Connect, and Project—brought to action by respecting the mountain and its resources, connecting with the surrounding community, and leading others towards a sustainable future. Killington and Pico also make numerous monetary and in-kind contributions to local and regional charitable organizations each year.
Killington and Pico provide both financial and in-kind support to nonprofit organizations, with an emphasis on environmental stewardship and community enrichment. In 2023 alone, the resorts reported more than $300,000 in charitable cash and in-kind donations supporting local and national organizations.
Locally, that support touches a wide range of needs. Partnerships and initiatives have included food-security efforts, youth recreation, workforce and employee support, community infrastructure, and programs that make outdoor recreation more accessible.
Killington also works with organizations including Vermont Adaptive, helping people with disabilities participate in skiing, riding, and other outdoor recreation, and the Vermont Farmers Food Center, supporting access to local food while strengthening Vermont’s agricultural community.
Creating opportunities for young Vermonters to experience the outdoors is another important piece of Killington’s community work.
For the 2025–26 season, Killington and Pico committed $60,000 to a youth ski and snowboard lease program for eligible Vermont students in Rutland and Windsor counties. The initiative was designed to provide seasonal equipment to more than 300 children while partnering with local ski and snowboard shops, including several businesses within the KPAA community. This program will continue into the 2026–27 season and beyond.
Pico Mountain also works with local schools and community programs to introduce more young people to skiing and snowboarding and help reduce some of the barriers that can make mountain sports difficult to access.
Contributed to communities through philanthropic and partnership efforts.
In charitable cash and in-kind donations in 2023 alone.
Vermont kids equipped through a $60,000 youth ski and snowboard lease program.
From retired Skyeship Gondola cabins, directed to smaller ski areas.
Kilowatt-hours of clean electricity generated each year through on- and off-site solar.
Killington’s community reach extends beyond its own slopes.
In 2025, the resort auctioned retired Skyeship Gondola cabins and directed more than $150,000 in proceeds toward its new Community Mountain Support Fund, designed to help smaller ski areas invest in infrastructure and continue providing local access to winter recreation.
That commitment reflects an important part of Vermont’s mountain culture: thriving destination resorts and smaller community hills both contribute to the future of skiing and outdoor recreation in the region.
Community investment and environmental stewardship naturally go hand in hand in a mountain town.
Killington’s sustainability initiatives include renewable energy, more efficient snowmaking, waste reduction, composting, wastewater reuse, and electric-vehicle infrastructure. The resort reports generating approximately 3.3 million kilowatt-hours of clean electricity annually through on- and off-site solar projects and provides 60 EV charging stations across Killington and Pico.
For visitors, these efforts are another part of the Killington story. The mountain may draw people here, but it is the strength of the surrounding community, organizations, businesses, and landscape that makes Killington a place people return to year after year.
