Ski Butternut, or Butternut Basin, is a long-established ski resort in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, on Warner Mountain in the Berkshires. Channing and Jane Murdock took control of the resort in 1963 and gave it a name drawn from the butternut groves in the mountain basin; in 1994, their son Jeffrey assumed leadership. The resort includes 22 trails, 10 lifts, terrain parks, tubing, and a ski school, and it also hosts summer concerts and festivals. In 1995, the Great Barrington tornado caused severe damage, striking 18 trails and five lifts and inflicting $2 million in losses.