municipal or publically owned ski areas

[Seth]

AK1 - created 01:09am Oct 18, 2002 EST

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I live in Juneau Alaska. Our local ski area is city owned and operated. Does anyone know how common this is? Are there hundreds of publically owned ski areas (I know there are thousands of municipally owned golf courses)or is this unusual. I have heard that Winterpark CO is publically owned. ??? Just wondering

[RacerReady]

Hogadon Ski Area, is owned by the City of Casper, WY since the early 1980's.

[jedk]

Rice Lake, WI has a nice little aki area called "Hardscrabble". I skied there in the early 1960's. Then it had rope tow but I don't know what they have now, but it is open.

[Dan Schultz]

Rice Lake, WI has a nice little aki area called "Hardscrabble". I skied there in the early 1960's. Then it had rope tow but I don't know what they have now, but it is open.

I wish you were right, but Hardscrabble, as of last year, was closed. I exchanged e-mails with one of the owners, and he said he and others were going to try to re-open it. I don't think it was publicly owned. I hope they re-open it.

[Patrick G]

Bogus Basin ski area north of Boise, Idaho is a non-profit
community owned ski area founded in the 1940s I believe
and helped durning tough times with donations from
JR Simplot.

[Philpug]

Mad River Glen is a co-op. Hickory Ski Center in NY was trying to be a co-op, I am not sure they survived.

[Paul MacArthur]

McCauley Mountain near Old Forge, NY is run by the Town of Webb.

Val Bialas, a very small hill in Utica, NY is run by the City of Utica.

[psia74]

I think Pajarito Mountain, the ski area near Los Alamos, NM, is publicly owned, or maybe it's by the local ski club. An old Ski School Director of mine was the GM, Tommy Long. I worked for him at Sandia Peak in the 70's.

[Singlejc]

In New England there are/were many.

Cannon - State of NH
Sunapee - State of NH but leased to a private operator
Gunstock - County of Belknap NH
McIntosh - City of Manchester NH
Blue Hills - Metro District Comm (MA)
Prospect Hills - City of Waltham MA. That is where I started in '58 it is no longer open.

Many schools private and public own areas as well Dartmouth Skiway (Dartmouth College)
Middlebury Middlebury College.

A good resource for the older areas is New England Lost Ski Area Project at NELSAP.org.

Since many of the small publicly owned areas are now closed, many were attached to golf courses

[giantslalom]

In the mid 1950's, my parents took me skiing at Chataqua in Boulder. There was a rope tow there, and we skiied under lights. Long gone, I am showing my age.