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Amherst College Memorial Hill
A small rope-tow hill on the Amherst College campus that the college ran from the 1950s until about 1973.
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Amherst College ran a small rope-tow ski area on Memorial Hill, on its main campus in Amherst, from the 1950s into the early 1970s. The hill had only about 60 feet of vertical, and people who skied it remember the tow running up its right side as seen from the bottom.1,2
Read the whole historyTodayThe hill is closed to winter sports for liability reasons. (2007)1
Timeline
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Memories
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Lost near Amherst College Memorial Hill
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- 1960–1998 · 10.1 mi away · MassachusettsA ski area on Mount Tom in Holyoke, Massachusetts, with chairlifts, snowmaking and night skiing, open from 1960 until 1998.
- Years not yet collected · 11.7 mi away · MassachusettsA small ski development with one rope tow on Petticoat Hill in Williamsburg, listed in the 1949 Massachusetts Ski Guide.
- Opened 1956 · 18.2 mi away · MassachusettsA T-bar ski area on Route 2 in Shelburne, west of Greenfield, that ran from December 1956 into the early 1980s, first as the Mohawk Skiway.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 2 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
Amherst College ran a small rope-tow ski area on Memorial Hill, on its main campus in Amherst, from the 1950s into the early 1970s. The hill had only about 60 feet of vertical, and people who skied it remember the tow running up its right side as seen from the bottom. NELSAP says the area closed around 1973 after vandalism; one recollection puts the last winter at 1972–73 or 1973–74. Skimap.org keeps a map of the hill dated 1970.1,2
TodayThe hill is closed to winter sports for liability reasons. (2007)1
Sources for this history (2)
- 1New England Lost Ski Areas Project · Amherst College — Memorial Hill
- 2Skimap.org · Amherst College Memorial Hill
Photos
No photographs of Amherst College Memorial Hill we may republish yet
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Memories
What skiers remember of Amherst College Memorial Hill, in their own words.
Facts
Location
42.3691° N · 72.5170° W · Massachusetts
OpenSkiMap lists it as abandoned.
Years operated
not yet collected
Closed for good; the year it closed is not yet collected. It stays here as part of the record of U.S. ski areas.
Its numbers
all 2all 2, in one list
Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain