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Blue Mountain opened in 1959 on Creek Road in Yorkshire, east of Springville, on trails cleared with a bulldozer. Besides two rope tows and a T-bar it had an unusual side-loading detachable chairlift.1,2
Read the whole historyTodayMost of the buildings, among them the base lodge and the ski school and patrol buildings, still stand, and the trails are visible but overgrown.1
Timeline
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Memories
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Lost near Bluemont
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- 1963–1991 · 15.5 mi away · New YorkA chairlift and T-bar ski area on Poverty Hill Road near Ellicottville that opened in 1963 and later ran as Snow Mountain, Olympus One and the private Concord Ski Club.
- Years not yet collected · 24.4 mi away · New YorkA small T-bar and rope-tow hill on Route 19 just south of Warsaw, with snowmaking and night skiing, listed in guidebooks through the 1970s.
- Opened 1958 · 25.2 mi away · New YorkA ski area on West Five Mile Road in Allegany that opened as Grosstal, later ran as Ski Wing and Wing Hollow, and closed in the early 1980s.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 3 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
Blue Mountain opened in 1959 on Creek Road in Yorkshire, east of Springville, on trails cleared with a bulldozer. Besides two rope tows and a T-bar it had an unusual side-loading detachable chairlift. Its grips kept working loose and chairs came off the cable, and in 1962 the area shut down.1,2
It reopened in 1968 as Bluemont, with a fixed-grip chair loaded from the front, and ran through 1979, still owned by the family that founded it. It had eight trails, night skiing and snowmaking. Guides of the 1970s give 800 feet of vertical from a 1,300-foot base and a longest run of 6,600 feet; Lost NY gives the drop as 713 feet.1,2,3
Kingbrook, a Canadian company, bought it in 1980 to make a private four-season resort. It acquired more land but never ran the lifts for profit. NELSAP reports that its parent company, Cornerstone of Colorado, put the 11,000 acres up for sale at about $9 million.1
TodayMost of the buildings, among them the base lodge and the ski school and patrol buildings, still stand, and the trails are visible but overgrown.1
Sources for this history (3)
- 1New England Lost Ski Areas Project · Bluemont
- 2Skikabbalah · Bluemont
- 3Skikabbalah · Bluemont, guidebook references
Photos
No photographs of Bluemont 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 Bluemont, in their own words.
Facts
Location
42.5130° N · 78.5360° W · New York
OpenSkiMap lists it as abandoned.
Years operated
1959–1979
Closed after the 1979 season. It stays here as part of the record of U.S. ski areas.
Its numbers
all 5all 5, in one list
Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain