Lost ski areaMassachusettsNortheast
Atlantic Forests
A rope-tow ski area on Powwow Hill in Amesbury, also known as the Amesbury Ski Tow, that ran from before 1949 into the early 1990s.
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Atlantic Forests, which NELSAP lists together with the Amesbury Ski Tow, was a small ski area on Powwow Hill in Amesbury. A 1949 Where to Ski guide described two rope tows there, each 1,500 feet long.1,2
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Skied Atlantic Forests, or worked there?
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Lost near Atlantic Forests
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- Years not yet collected · 11.3 mi away · MassachusettsA tiny rope-tow hill run by the Forest Acres apartment complex in the Bradford section of Haverhill until the mid-1970s.
- Years not yet collected · 17.3 mi away · MassachusettsA members' rope-tow hill on Wheatland's Hill in Topsfield, run by the Topsfield Ski Club from the 1950s until the late 1970s.
- 1948–1993 · 17.4 mi away · MassachusettsA ski area on Boston Hill beside Route 114 in North Andover, an early snowmaker, that ran from the 1948–49 winter to 1992–93.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 2 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
Atlantic Forests, which NELSAP lists together with the Amesbury Ski Tow, was a small ski area on Powwow Hill in Amesbury. A 1949 Where to Ski guide described two rope tows there, each 1,500 feet long. NELSAP dates it from before 1949 into the early 1990s, and Skimap.org keeps a trail map of Atlantic Forests from 1989.1,2
Sources for this history (2)
- 1New England Lost Ski Areas Project · Amesbury Ski Tow / Atlantic Forest
- 2Skimap.org · Atlantic Forests
Photos
No photographs of Atlantic Forests we may republish yet
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Memories
What skiers remember of Atlantic Forests, in their own words.
Facts
Location
42.8684° N · 70.9331° 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
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Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain