Lost ski areaNew HampshireNortheast
Gateway Hills Snow park
Ran 2017–2018. A small Magic Carpet slope on Long Hill in Nashua that skied on natural snow for a few weeks in each of the 2016–17 and 2017–18 winters.
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Gateway Hills Snow Park sat on Long Hill in Nashua. The John Flatley Company began seeking approval in the fall of 2016 to build a small ski area on its Nashua Technology Park property, and that December a 250-foot Magic Carpet went in between two novice slopes, with 40 feet of vertical.1
Read the whole historyTodayApartments cover the western end of the slope; the Magic Carpet and the eastern side remained in September 2021. (2021)3
Timeline
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Memories
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Lost near Gateway Hills Snow park
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- Years not yet collected · 7.7 mi away · MassachusettsA rope-tow ski area off Martin Pond Road in Groton, first called Priest's, that ran from the early 1960s to about 1980.
- 1935–1984 · 10.9 mi away · New HampshireA Brookline ski area that opened in the winter of 1935–36 and ran as Brookline Ski Area, Big Bear and Musket Mountain until 1984.
- 1965–1985 · 12.7 mi away · New HampshireA family-run ski hill off Hardy Road in Londonderry with T-bars, night skiing and snowmaking, open from about 1965 to 1985.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 3 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
Gateway Hills Snow Park sat on Long Hill in Nashua. The John Flatley Company began seeking approval in the fall of 2016 to build a small ski area on its Nashua Technology Park property, and that December a 250-foot Magic Carpet went in between two novice slopes, with 40 feet of vertical. It opened on February 11, 2017, on natural snow, the first new ski area open to the public in New Hampshire since the 1970s, with terrain park features on one slope and beginner terrain on the other. It ran until the snow melted in mid-March.1
It opened again in late December 2017, but a thaw ended the season in February 2018. Plans to run in 2018–19 came to nothing, probably for lack of natural snow, and the area's website and social media pages went dark. By September 2021 an apartment complex covered the western end of the slope, though the Magic Carpet and the eastern side were untouched. In January 2023 a new fan snow gun had been delivered and tested on site, and the owners hoped to reopen the lit slope that winter, perhaps with a terrain park and tubing.1,2,3
TodayApartments cover the western end of the slope; the Magic Carpet and the eastern side remained in September 2021. (2021)3
Sources for this history (3)
- 1New England Ski History · Gateway Hills Snow Park
- 2NewEnglandSkiIndustry.com · Gateway Hills Attempting to Reopen with Snowmaking (January 4, 2023)
- 3NewEnglandSkiIndustry.com · Gateway Hills Snow Park Partially Redeveloped (September 16, 2021)
Photos
No photographs of Gateway Hills Snow park 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 Gateway Hills Snow park, in their own words.
Facts
Location
42.7150° N · 71.4534° W · New Hampshire
OpenStreetMap still maps 1 lift here; OpenSkiMap lists it as abandoned.
Years operated
2017–2018
Closed after the 2018 season. 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