Crotched Mountain Ski & Ride Area is a small ski area on the border between Francestown and Bennington, southern New Hampshire, USA, unusual because it reopened in the 2003-2004 winter after having been closed for 13 years. This bucked a trend in the downhill ski industry, which has seen hundreds of small ski areas close due to high costs and increased competition. The snowmaking system claims the highest snow production capacity of any ski area in New England at 200 US gallons per minute per acre (11 cm/h).