Lost ski areaPennsylvaniaMid-Atlantic
Blair Mountain
A small rope-tow ski area near Dillsburg, a few miles from Ski Roundtop, started around 1961 by five York partners and closed in the mid-1960s.
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Five partners from York, Pennsylvania, started Blair Mountain around 1961 near Dillsburg, a few miles northwest of where Ski Roundtop later opened, on about 300 vertical feet. A rope tow served the slope, and a public road crossed the bottom of the hill, so renters walked over it on their skis.1
Read the whole historyTodayThe former base lodge on Blair Mountain Road houses a photography studio, and concrete pillars from the tow still climb the hillside. (2014)1
Timeline
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Memories
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Lost near Blair Mountain
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- Opened 1989 · 34 mi away · PennsylvaniaA ski area on U.S. Route 322 near Thompsontown that opened in early 1989 with a quad chair and was in bankruptcy by February 1991.
- Closed 1990 · 48.6 mi away · PennsylvaniaA family-run ski hill at Richmond Furnace in Path Valley, along Route 75, with a rope tow, a truck-driven lift and a big log lodge, from about 1962 to 1990.
- Closed 2005 · 51.6 mi away · PennsylvaniaA small ski and snow tubing area near Bernville, north of Reading, that began as Mount Heidelberg and closed as Blue Marsh in 2005.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 1 page below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
Five partners from York, Pennsylvania, started Blair Mountain around 1961 near Dillsburg, a few miles northwest of where Ski Roundtop later opened, on about 300 vertical feet. A rope tow served the slope, and a public road crossed the bottom of the hill, so renters walked over it on their skis. Short of capital, the partners could not buy the top 50 or so vertical feet. One reader believes there was also a T-bar.1
Irvin Naylor, who skied Blair with his young son and then founded Ski Roundtop, opened Roundtop on December 10, 1964, and recalls Blair announcing its closing in about the spring of 1966. A brochure for the 1965–66 season survives. In the early-to-mid 1970s the old lodge hosted rock bands, among them Rory Gallagher in September 1972, and since 1996 it has held a photography studio.1
TodayThe former base lodge on Blair Mountain Road houses a photography studio, and concrete pillars from the tow still climb the hillside. (2014)1
Sources for this history (1)
- 1DCSki · Blair Mountain
Photos
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Memories
What skiers remember of Blair Mountain, in their own words.
Facts
Location
40.0957° N · 76.9936° W · Pennsylvania
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