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Bull Run Ski Area

Ran 1972–1980. A small rope-tow ski area about a mile west of Boscobel that ran from 1972 to 1980.

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Bull Run was a small ski area about a mile west of Boscobel in southwestern Wisconsin. The Midwest Lost Ski Areas Project gives its years as 1972 to 1980 and its vertical as 230 feet, with two rope tows in 1978.1,2

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Timeline

3 events · swipe

  1. 1972Opens; an open house shows off a new chalet in November1
  2. 1978Two rope tows listed1
  3. 1980Closes, per the Midwest Lost Ski Areas Project1

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Lost near Bull Run Ski Area

The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.

  • Wintergreen

    1969–1991 · 32.6 mi away · WisconsinA ski hill overlooking the Lower Wisconsin State Riverway near Spring Green that opened in December 1969 and closed in 1991; its land is now a nature preserve.

  • Timberline

    1966–1982 · 40.1 mi away · WisconsinA ski area two miles west of Arena, about 30 miles northwest of Madison, that MWLSAP dates from 1966 to 1982.

  • Birch Haven

    Opened 1954 · 49.3 mi away · WisconsinA small ski hill between Sauk City and Baraboo, first called Suicide Hill, that opened in 1954 and was gone by about 1971.
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