I’m an instructor at Winter Park - eight seasons. Taught kids exclusively the first six seasons. It depends on whether you want them to be able to truly ski on their own or just get used to ski boots. I would say for really having the muscle strength and coordination, they shouldn’t start skiing until four.
We used to have a 3-4 year old group lesson and most of the time we just played in the snow with about 40-45 minutes for the whole six hours. Yes there was the rare gifted 3-year old who was able to get it. But they were usually big for their age and few and far between.
Btw, Winter Park no longer offers group ski school for 3-year olds. The scrapped it during the pandemic and decided not to bring it back.
just my two cents.
We used to have a 3-4 year old group lesson and most of the time we just played in the snow with about 40-45 minutes for the whole six hours. Yes there was the rare gifted 3-year old who was able to get it. But they were usually big for their age and few and far between.
Btw, Winter Park no longer offers group ski school for 3-year olds. The scrapped it during the pandemic and decided not to bring it back.
just my two cents.