Lost ski areaMassachusettsNortheast
Forest Acres
A tiny rope-tow hill run by the Forest Acres apartment complex in the Bradford section of Haverhill until the mid-1970s.
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Forest Acres belonged to the apartment complex of the same name in Bradford, Haverhill. A 600-foot rope tow served a fairly wide slope and one trail on about 80 feet of vertical, and residents skied free; a former resident recalls cross-country trails on the hilltop as the bigger draw.1
Read the whole historyTodayThe old slope lies inside the Forest Acres housing complex.1
Timeline
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Memories
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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 Forest Acres
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- 1948–1993 · 7.5 mi away · MassachusettsA ski area on Boston Hill beside Route 114 in North Andover, an early snowmaker, that ran from the 1948–49 winter to 1992–93.
- Years not yet collected · 11.3 mi away · MassachusettsA rope-tow ski area on Powwow Hill in Amesbury, also known as the Amesbury Ski Tow, that ran from before 1949 into the early 1990s.
- Years not yet collected · 11.8 mi away · MassachusettsA members' rope-tow hill on Wheatland's Hill in Topsfield, run by the Topsfield Ski Club from the 1950s until the late 1970s.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 1 page below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
Forest Acres belonged to the apartment complex of the same name in Bradford, Haverhill. A 600-foot rope tow served a fairly wide slope and one trail on about 80 feet of vertical, and residents skied free; a former resident recalls cross-country trails on the hilltop as the bigger draw. NELSAP says it ran until the mid-1970s.1
TodayThe old slope lies inside the Forest Acres housing complex.1
Timeline
- c. 1970Rope tow skiing for residents ends by the mid-1970s1
Sources for this history (1)
- 1New England Lost Ski Areas Project · Forest Acres
Photos
No photographs of Forest Acres 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 Forest Acres, in their own words.
Facts
Location
42.7553° N · 71.0944° W · Massachusetts
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