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Lost ski areaNew YorkAdirondack MountainsNortheast

Fawn Ridge

A small in-town beginner hill behind the Lake Placid Center in Lake Placid, served for 37 years by a rope tow and later also by a Poma lift.

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Fawn Ridge was a novice hill in the village of Lake Placid, behind the Lake Placid Center. A rope tow ran there for 37 years, and a Poma lift added in the 1960s made the in-town slope a busy place; it dropped 135 feet.1

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Timeline

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  1. c. 1960A Poma lift is added in the 1960s1
  2. 1961Listed with one slope and one tow among Lake Placid's areas1

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Lost near Fawn Ridge

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

  • Mt. Whitney

    Years not yet collected · 2.9 mi away · New YorkThe Lake Placid Club's own ski hill north of Mirror Lake, served by T-bars, which opened to the public in 1976 as Mt. Whitney Ski Center.

  • Marble Mountain

    1948–1960 · 10 mi away · New YorkNew York State's first major ski area, on the wind-scoured north side of Whiteface Mountain near Wilmington, which ran from 1948 until 1960.

  • Bassett Mountain

    Years not yet collected · 13.6 mi away · New YorkPaleface Ski Center, a ski area on Bassett Mountain beside Route 86 in Jay, east of Wilmington, with one double chairlift and a T-bar.
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