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Eagle Bluff

Closed after the 1974 season. A ski hill near Hurley in northwestern Wisconsin, skied from the 1940s, reopened with a chairlift in 1970, and closed in 1974.

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Eagle Bluff was a ski area near Hurley in northwestern Wisconsin. The Midwest Lost Ski Areas Project traces skiing there to the 1940s, perhaps a tow as early as 1941, and to an area running in 1962.1,2

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Timeline

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  1. c. 1941A tow may have run here, per MWLSAP1
  2. 1962MWLSAP's opening year; Skimap.org holds a trail map from it1,2
  3. 1970Reopens with a chairlift after a possible break1
  4. 1974Closes, per the Midwest Lost Ski Areas Project1

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Lost near Eagle Bluff

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

  • Mt. Joy

    1958–1971 · 13.4 mi away · MichiganA small rope-tow ski hill in Wakefield, in Michigan's western Upper Peninsula, that opened for the 1958–59 winter and last ran around 1971.

  • Mus-Ski

    1956–1970 · 43.8 mi away · WisconsinA ski hill west of Sayner, open from 1956 or 1957 until 1970, whose slopes are now being built into mountain-bike trails.

  • Chanticleer Inn

    Years not yet collected · 61.3 mi away · WisconsinA small ski hill run by the Chanticleer Inn, a lake resort at Eagle River, perhaps from 1961 and still listed in 1975.
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