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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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Lost near Eagle Bluff
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 2 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
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. It may have been closed from 1967 to 1969, reopened in 1970 with a chairlift, and closed in 1974. MWLSAP gives its vertical as 220 to 275 feet, and Skimap.org has a 1962 trail map.1,2
Sources for this history (2)
- 1Midwest Lost Ski Areas Project · Eagle Bluff Ski Area
- 2Skimap.org · Eagle Bluff
Photos
No photographs of Eagle Bluff we may republish yet
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Memories
What skiers remember of Eagle Bluff, in their own words.
Facts
Location
46.4699° N · 90.2036° W · Wisconsin
OpenSkiMap lists it as abandoned.
Years operated
until 1974 · the year it opened is not yet collected
Closed after the 1974 season. It stays here as part of the record of U.S. ski areas.
No figures from its operating years are collected yet.
Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain