Beskyd ski resort

A mid-2000s snapshot. Beskyd ski area is located at the village of Verkhniy Studenyy off the Kyiv-Uzhhorod train line. However, access was a bit difficult because the trains no longer stopped at Beskyd station. You needed to get off at the next stop (Skotarske), walk down to the elektrichka ("electric train") stop on the same line and get on the elektrichka going in the opposite direction (approx. 20 min after the Kyiv-Uzhhorod train passed through), and this time get off at Beskyd. From there it was a one-hour walk over the hill to Verkhniy Studenyy. Most mornings horse-drawn sleds waited there to take visitors to the village.

An easier way, perhaps, was to take a taxi to Verkhniy Studenyy village from Volovets. Taxi drivers found you themselves at the train station. It's about a 20 km drive.

The elevation is about 850 m above sea level, and snow cover was reliable. Beskyd had an 800 m long tow lift and a nice wide mountain that you could get down several different ways. Around the corner was a second lift with a shorter but fairly steep run. In general, Beskyd was for lower-intermediate and intermediate skiers. There were two or three places to rent skis in the village and at nearby Edelweiss hotel. At the bottom of the mountain - two cafes.

At that time, lodging in Verkhniy Studenyy could be sought through skiukraine.info.

Source note from that period: skiukraine.info (the site later became unavailable).