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Lost ski areaNew HampshireWapack RangeNortheast

Flat Mountain Ski Area

Ran 1962–1967. A small rope-tow area in New Ipswich, also known as Kidder Mountain, that ran from 1962 to 1967.

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Flat Mountain Ski Area, which NELSAP files under Kidder Mountain, sat just off Appleton Road north of Route 123 in New Ipswich, across the road from what is now the Windblown touring center. The Koivula brothers ran it as a small family operation.1

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TodayThe warming hut and the small building at the top of a tow still stand.1

Timeline

2 events · swipe

  1. 1962Opens with two rope tows and five trails1,2
  2. 1967Last year of operation given by NELSAP and Skimap.org1,2

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Lost near Flat Mountain Ski Area

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

  • Ski Watatic

    Closed 1984 · 4.8 mi away · MassachusettsA family ski area on Mount Watatic in Ashby that grew from a rope tow to T-bars and two chairlifts, closing in the mid-1980s.

  • Temple Mountain

    1937–2001 · 5.2 mi away · New HampshireA ski area on Temple Mountain in Temple and Peterborough, New Hampshire, that ran from the winter of 1937–38 until 2001.

  • Franklin Pierce College Ski Hill

    Years not yet collected · 8 mi away · New HampshireA college ski hill in Rindge with a rope tow, a ski jump and open slopes, used from about the mid-1960s to the early 1980s.
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