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Wilmot Mountain Ski Resort: Wilmot: Wisconsin: 960 770 190 120 23 11 48 $65 December 9, 2019 [357] Alpine Valley: White Lake: Michigan: 500 126 374 100 25 14 20 $48 December 9, 2019 [358] Apple Mountain: Freeland: Michigan: 820 600 220 80 12 6 52 Temporarily Closed December 9, 2019 [359] Big Powderhorn Mountain Resort: Bessemer: Michigan: 1,800 ...
Mount Pisgah is the mountain that is known by many as Mount Snow and was originally named after the Biblical Mount Pisgah. A large amount of land on Mount Pisgah was purchased from the estate of Reuben Snow, in early 1953 and on December 12, 1954, the mountain, renamed Mount Snow, after the Snow family, opened to the public. [ 5 ]
The number of snow ski areas and resorts in the United States peaked in the late 1960s at around 1000 areas. [1] Since then many small, rope-tow only areas have closed or consolidated. [ 2 ] The following listing accounts for US ski areas that are currently operational.
Cascade Mountain is located in Portage, Wisconsin. It has 48 trails, 3 terrain parks, and an 800-foot-long chute for snow tubing. It has 48 trails, 3 terrain parks, and an 800-foot-long chute for snow tubing.
The Barn Door Hills of north-central Connecticut are a pair of prominent rocky trap rock knobs separated by a steep sided gap. They are located in Granby, Connecticut.The hills are an outlying section of the narrow, linear Metacomet Ridge that extends from Long Island Sound near New Haven, north through the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts to the Vermont border.
Rank Resort name State Vertical (ft) Skiable acres Trails Lifts Notes 1: Killington: Vermont: 3,050: 1,509: 155: 21: Largest drop in New England, 26th largest drop in the United States
Christie Mountain ski area was designed and built by George and Pat Sorenson in the 1970s. The Sorensons named the ski area after the Stem christie--the name of a turn used in alpine skiing--and opened it for business in 1977. They designed a series of trails, installed two chairlifts, drilled a well, created a holding pond for snow-making ...
Wilmot Mountain is located 40 miles south-southwest of Milwaukee and 55 miles (90 km) north of Chicago. The Stopa Family were the owners and operators from February 1938 to January 2016. Vail Resorts purchased the resort in early 2016 and completed about $13 million in renovations in the same year.