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This ski hill was in Calumet County Park near Stockbridge, in east central Wisconsin. It was earlier called Calumet Hills and is also listed under the name Fox Valley Ski Club.1
Read the whole historyTodayThe county park now runs a snow tubing hill with a tow line on winter weekends when there is enough snow. (2026)3
Timeline
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Memories
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Lost near Calumet
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- Opened 1964 · 24.4 mi away · WisconsinA small hill near De Pere, just south of Green Bay, that ran as the Pink Panther, then Snowburst, and last as Bear Valley.
- 1963–1979 · 26.3 mi away · WisconsinA club-run rope-tow hill east of New London that Mo-Ski-Tow Inc. built to replace its Mosquito Hill slope; it closed after the 1978–79 season.
- Closed 1979 · 27.4 mi away · WisconsinA small upside-down ski hill in the Kettle Moraine State Forest's northern unit near Campbellsport, with parking on top, that closed in 1979.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 3 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
This ski hill was in Calumet County Park near Stockbridge, in east central Wisconsin. It was earlier called Calumet Hills and is also listed under the name Fox Valley Ski Club. The Midwest Lost Ski Areas Project dates it from 1950 to 1996 and gives 155 feet of vertical, with five rope tows in 1978.1
MWLSAP links listings in a 1951–52 railroad guide to winter sports and in SKI Magazine in 1978 and 1984, and Skimap.org holds trail maps from 1978 and 1989.1,2
TodayThe county park now runs a snow tubing hill with a tow line on winter weekends when there is enough snow. (2026)3
Sources for this history (3)
- 1Midwest Lost Ski Areas Project · Calumet County Park (previously Calumet Hills, also Fox Valley Ski Club)
- 2Skimap.org · Calumet
- 3Calumet County · Calumet County Park Snow Tubing Hill
Photos
No photographs of Calumet 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 Calumet, in their own words.
Facts
Location
44.1140° N · 88.3217° W · Wisconsin
OpenStreetMap still maps 1 lift and 1 downhill run here; OpenSkiMap lists it as abandoned.
Years operated
1950–1996
Closed after the 1996 season. It stays here as part of the record of U.S. ski areas.
Its numbers
all 2all 2, in one list
Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain