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Copy Cat, also spelled Koppy Cat, was a members-only ski club on Johnson Road in Glenville. Ski Venture's charter allowed only 99 families, so people on its waiting list built their own hill across the road, and the name followed.1
Read the whole historyTodayThe land is posted, the trails have grown in, and the frame of the second rope tow can still be seen from the road.1
Memories
Skied Copy Cat, or worked there?
Tell us what you remember, or what this page has wrong. Memories show here, credited to you, after we read them; facts are checked against a source before they change a figure.
Lost near Copy Cat
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- Closed 1981 · 0.4 mi away · New YorkA two-rope-tow ski hill off Ridge Road in Glenville, beside Ski Venture, that ran on leased land from about the 1950s until 1981.
- Years not yet collected · 4 mi away · New YorkA small ski area off Rynex Corner Road in Pattersonville, west of Schenectady, known over the years as Homestead, Fox Hollow and Eagle Mountain.
- 1944–1993 · 19.1 mi away · New YorkA ski area at Porters Corners in Greenfield, north of Saratoga Springs, that ran from the 1940s into the early 1990s, for two decades as Adirondack Ski Center.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 1 page below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
Copy Cat, also spelled Koppy Cat, was a members-only ski club on Johnson Road in Glenville. Ski Venture's charter allowed only 99 families, so people on its waiting list built their own hill across the road, and the name followed. It had two rope tows and a few slopes and trails on about 100 feet of vertical. NELSAP says it ran from before the 1970s, probably into the 1980s.1
TodayThe land is posted, the trails have grown in, and the frame of the second rope tow can still be seen from the road.1
Timeline
Sources for this history (1)
- 1New England Lost Ski Areas Project · Copy Cat/Koppy Cat
Photos
No photographs of Copy Cat 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 Copy Cat, in their own words.
Facts
Location
42.9193° N · 74.0335° W · New York
OpenSkiMap lists it as abandoned.
Years operated
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.
Its numbers
all 2all 2, in one list
Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain