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Battle Creek was a small ski hill owned by Ramsey County inside the 566-acre Battle Creek Park in St. Paul.1
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Lost near Battle Creek Park
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- 1952–1972 · 12 mi away · MinnesotaA family-run rope-tow ski area on the Mississippi River bluffs at Pine Bend, between South St. Paul and Hastings, that operated from the 1950s until 1972.
- Opened 1966 · 15.1 mi away · WisconsinA ski area at Houlton, three miles east of Stillwater, Minnesota, that opened in 1966, had three chairlifts by 1978, and closed around 1985.
- 1954–1982 · 17.5 mi away · WisconsinA ski area south of Somerset, opened by the McAlister family as Ski-Mac in 1954 and renamed Snowcrest in 1969, that closed around 1982.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 3 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
Battle Creek was a small ski hill owned by Ramsey County inside the 566-acre Battle Creek Park in St. Paul. In January 1977 SKI Magazine described five runs on a 75-foot hill served by four rope tows, with lights for night skiing, snowmaking on two runs, a new ski school and about two miles of cross-country trail. Prices were set for children, who made up most of its skiers, and the county had tentative plans to build the hill up to 160 feet and add a chalet and more snowmaking.1
MWLSAP lists three rope tows in 1978 and a vertical of 90 or 170 feet, and notes that the park also had a ski jump, used until about 1975. Skimap.org holds trail maps from 1977 and 1980. No source read gives the years the ski hill opened or closed.2,3
Sources for this history (3)
- 1SKI Magazine · Battle Creek, Minnesota: Neighborhood skiing (SKI Magazine, January 1977), clipping on MWLSAP
- 2Midwest Lost Ski Areas Project · Battle Creek Park
- 3Skimap.org · Battle Creek Park
Photos
No photographs of Battle Creek Park 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 Battle Creek Park, in their own words.
Facts
Location
44.9382° N · 93.0121° W · Minnesota
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 3all 3, in one list
Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain