Lost ski areaPennsylvaniaMid-Atlantic
Alpine Mountain
Ran 1965–2015. A Poconos ski area near Analomink that opened as Timber Hill in the 1960s and, as Alpine Mountain, closed for skiing in 2015.
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Alpine Mountain began as Timber Hill, a ski area in the Poconos near Henryville and Analomink. A 1965 news release, now in a collector's files, announced Timber Hill's grand opening, and Skimap.org marks a 1965 map as its opening year.1,3
Read the whole historyTodayThe lodge and outbuildings stand boarded up, and the two quad chairs are in poor repair. (2020)1
Timeline
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Memories
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Lost near Alpine Mountain
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- Years not yet collected · 5 mi away · PennsylvaniaA small ski hill at the Mount Airy Lodge resort near Mount Pocono, where two chairlifts served gentle slopes that were golf holes in summer.
- Opened 1913 · 6.5 mi away · PennsylvaniaThe ski hill of the Buck Hill Falls resort in the Poconos, where skiing began in the 1913–14 season and lasted into at least the late 1970s.
- Years not yet collected · 6.9 mi away · PennsylvaniaA hotel ski area at the Pocono Manor resort near Mount Pocono, its slopes dropping from a lodge below the hotel, that ran from the 1960s into the 1980s.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 4 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
Alpine Mountain began as Timber Hill, a ski area in the Poconos near Henryville and Analomink. A 1965 news release, now in a collector's files, announced Timber Hill's grand opening, and Skimap.org marks a 1965 map as its opening year. A former junior instructor remembers two T-bars and a Poma there in the late 1970s, and a reader recalls snowmobile races and summer motocross on the hill.1,3
As Alpine Mountain it had 550 feet of vertical, 21 trails on 60 skiable acres, two quad chairs and a double, six tubing runs and lights on all its terrain, with a lodge holding a cafeteria, ski shop and ski school. In 2013 it was offered in a closed-bid auction, and an undisclosed buyer reopened it on December 20, 2013. After two seasons under that management it closed in 2015; DCSki also gives about 2016.1,2,4
In January 2017 the 97-acre property went on the market with a $750,000 suggested opening bid. A couple from the Poconos bought it for a little over $400,000 and said skiing would not return. Wikipedia dates the sale to 2017.1,2
TodayThe lodge and outbuildings stand boarded up, and the two quad chairs are in poor repair. (2020)1
Sources for this history (4)
- 1DCSki · Alpine Mountain
- 2Wikipedia · Alpine Mountain Ski & Ride Center
- 3Skimap.org · Alpine Mountain
- 4DCSki · Alpine Mountain
Photos
No photographs of Alpine Mountain we may republish yet
Its old photos and trail maps live on the sites that collected them, and Google finds the rest.
Memories
What skiers remember of Alpine Mountain, in their own words.
Facts
Location
41.1135° N · 75.2258° W · Pennsylvania
OpenSkiMap lists it as abandoned.
Years operated
1965–2015
Closed after the 2015 season. It stays here as part of the record of U.S. ski areas.
Its numbers
all 4all 4, in one list
Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain