Lost ski areaPennsylvaniaMid-Atlantic
Buck Hill
The ski hill of the Buck Hill Falls resort in the Poconos, where skiing began in the 1913–14 season and lasted into at least the late 1970s.
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Buck Hill Falls, a Pocono resort community with a grand hotel and a country club, first offered skiing in the 1913–14 season, with no lifts. Drawing on Peggy Bancroft's history of Barrett Township, a DCSki contributor lists ski rentals from 1925, a ski jump in 1931 and, in 1934, a rope tow that may have been Pennsylvania's first.1
Read the whole historyTodayThe site is part of the Buck Hill Falls golf course and community, and the old ski lodge has been remodeled as a recreation center. (2007)1
Timeline
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Memories
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Lost near Buck Hill
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- Years not yet collected · 6.4 mi away · PennsylvaniaA small ski hill at the Mount Airy Lodge resort near Mount Pocono, where two chairlifts served gentle slopes that were golf holes in summer.
- 1965–2015 · 6.5 mi away · PennsylvaniaA Poconos ski area near Analomink that opened as Timber Hill in the 1960s and, as Alpine Mountain, closed for skiing in 2015.
- Years not yet collected · 7.9 mi away · PennsylvaniaA hotel ski area at the Pocono Manor resort near Mount Pocono, its slopes dropping from a lodge below the hotel, that ran from the 1960s into the 1980s.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 1 page below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
Buck Hill Falls, a Pocono resort community with a grand hotel and a country club, first offered skiing in the 1913–14 season, with no lifts. Drawing on Peggy Bancroft's history of Barrett Township, a DCSki contributor lists ski rentals from 1925, a ski jump in 1931 and, in 1934, a rope tow that may have been Pennsylvania's first. Snowmaking came in 1959, the first Poma lift in the Poconos in 1961 and a second Poma in 1963.1
Hotel guests and cottage families learned to ski there through the 1960s and 1970s, with skating and sledding beside the slopes. Skiing lasted into the late 1970s at least; no source gives its last season. The slopes share ground with the Buck Hill Falls golf course.1
TodayThe site is part of the Buck Hill Falls golf course and community, and the old ski lodge has been remodeled as a recreation center. (2007)1
Timeline
- 1913Skiing first offered, without lifts, in the 1913–14 season1
- 1925Ski rentals offered1
- 1931Ski jump built1
- 1934Rope tow installed, possibly the first in Pennsylvania1
- 1959Snowmaking installed1
- 1961The Poconos' first Poma lift built1
- 1963A second Poma lift added1
- c. 1970Skiing continues into the late 1970s at least1
Sources for this history (1)
- 1DCSki · Buck Hill Family Ski Area
Photos
No photographs of Buck Hill 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 Buck Hill, in their own words.
Facts
Location
41.1983° N · 75.2813° W · Pennsylvania
OpenSkiMap lists it as abandoned.
Years operated
from 1913 · the year it closed is 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.
No figures from its operating years are collected yet.
Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain