I am a local to Oregon. I have been skiing at Mt Hood Meadows since 2007. Mt Hood is the only ski area which is easily reachable from the Portland metro area as a day trip, and Mt Hood Meadows is the largest resort on Mt Hood, with the best variety of terrain. When I started skiing there, the place was very nice (with the exception of variable and unpredictable weather, typically heavy snow and abundance on ice, but the resort has no control over it - it is a combination of location and altitude). The lines were very manageable, even on weekends. As Portland kept on growing, more and more people started coming to Mt Hood Meadows, and the place got overwhelmed by the crowds. Midweek is still skiable, although not as empty as it used to be (a powder day on a midweek day would be a total zoo), but weekends became a disaster. To begin with, one should target arrival time of 8 am (8:20 at the latest) to get a spot on the main parking lot. If you arrive later, they will send you to a remote lot and you will have to take that school bus which I like to call a "cattle transport vehicle". They started gradually transforming their fleet to normal buses, which is a good sign, but still, all parking lots are usually full by 9:30 am - so if you are late, they will send you home. If all lifts are open, the lines are manageable, but if one or two lifts are on weather standby, you will spend the day in queues to just get on the lift. Lodge is small. They built another lodge, Sahale, which is tiny. People can get food but cannot find a place to sit. Many are eating standing, just like cattle. Food is garbage no matter where you go. Alpenstube used to be a decent eatery, but this season it had chosen to downgrade itself to junk food at ridiculous, for the food quality, prices. COVID was horribly mishandled, they oversold tickets multiple times, people arrived with nonrefundable tickets, there was no parking, they had to park illegally and got tickets. Some of all this is less than perfect management, some - circumstances of being the only decent resort next to already very big and growing metro area. I've been skiing all over the country over the years, including Mt Hood Meadows, and frankly speaking, Mt Hood Meadows is one of the worst places to go, if one compares resorts of similar size. I would not recommend anyone who is not a Portland resident to come to Mt Hood Meadows to ski.