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Afton Alps is a ski area, which hosts a collection of ski and snowboard trails, located along the St. Croix River in the northeast corner of Denmark Township, Washington County, south of Afton, Minnesota in the United States. There are nearly 300 acres (1.2 km 2) skiable at Afton Alps. The ski hill has 350 feet (110 m) of vertical drop.
Afton State Park is a state park of Minnesota, USA, on the St. Croix River in Washington County. Its hiking trails offer views of the river, rolling glacial moraine , and bluffland it preserves. It is a popular place for birdwatching , picnics , camping , and other typical outdoor recreational activities.
Afton Alps: Afton: Minnesota: 700 350 350 300 50 22 60 $28 October 1, 2019 [265] Andes Tower Hills: Kensington: Minnesota: 1,620 1,330 290 35 15 6 55 $45 October 1, 2019 [266] Buck Hill: Burnsville: Minnesota: 1,211 949 262 45 16 9 60 $47 October 1, 2019 [267] Buena Vista Ski Area: Bemidji: Minnesota: 1,510 1280 230 30 16 5 78 $44 October 1 ...
Afton Alps - Afton; Andes Tower Hills - Kensington; Buck Hill - Burnsville; Buena Vista - Bemidji; Coffee Mill Ski Area - Wabasha; Detroit Mountain - Detroit Lakes; Elm Creek - Maple Grove; Giants Ridge - Biwabik; Hyland Ski and Snowboard Area - Bloomington; Lutsen Mountains - Lutsen Township; Mt. Itasca - Coleraine, Minnesota [1] Mount Kato ...
Afton (/ ˈ æ f t ə n / AF-tən) [4] is a city in Washington County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 2,886 at the 2010 United States Census . [ 5 ] It lies on a small bay where Valley Creek empties into the St. Croix River , several miles north of its confluence with the Mississippi River .
Buck Hill is a ski hill in Burnsville, Minnesota, a suburb south of Minneapolis. It is one of three ski areas in the Twin Cities metropolitan area; the others are Afton Alps and Hyland Ski and Snowboard Area. Buck Hill opened in 1954 and offers ski, snowboard, and tubing trails.
Of the 503 ski areas, 390 are "public U.S. ski areas that run chairlifts" and "113 either run only surface lifts, or are not open to the general public", says to Storm Skiing. [5] Of the 390 public, chairlift areas, 233 or 60% have joined one or more United States–based, international multi-mountain ski pass , according to Storm Skiing.
Vail Resorts was founded as Vail Associates Ltd. by Pete Seibert and Earl Eaton in the early 1960s. Eaton, a lifelong resident, led Siebert (a former WWII 10th Mountain Division ski trooper) to the area in March 1957.