Buckaloons

Local backers, among them Elmer Hill and Neal Barnard, opened Youngsville Skiways in December 1961. It began with a rope tow; a 3,000-foot T-bar later opened the upper part of York Mountain, and in time a chairlift ran almost to the top, with a T-bar above it to the headwall. A founder's daughter lists 500 feet of vertical.¹

The area changed names several times. Readers call it York Mountain, then Peek'n Mountain when the owners of Peek'n Peak ran it, and finally Buckaloons, after the recreation area in the nearby national forest. The child of one buyer says their family and four others from Pittsburgh bought it from a Warren bank around 1980 and renamed it after a season; the founder's daughter instead dates the Buckaloons name to 1972–73.¹

A reader who grew up there says its last winter was 1982–83 and that the local paper reported it would not open for 1983–84; the first account on DCSki says it folded in the mid-1980s. The equipment was auctioned, and the lodge later became a home.¹

TodayThe runs are overgrown but still passable, and the slopes can be seen from Route 6. (2005)¹