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Hickory Hills Ski Slope lay about 13 miles south of Waterloo off Highway 21, two miles east on a county road. The Cedar Mountain Ski Club kept it up, and later the Waterloo Ski Club, which merged with Cedar Mountain in 1971.1
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Lost near Hickory Hills
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- Opened 1971 · 34.2 mi away · IowaA ski area just north of Waverly that opened as Ski Villa in 1971, became Oak Highlands in 1981 and closed in the late 1980s.
- Opened 1969 · 50.4 mi away · IowaA ski area outside Montezuma in south central Iowa that grew from rope tows to two chairlifts and ran from 1969 until about 2007.
- Opened 1960 · 76.5 mi away · IowaA city-owned ski area on U.S. 52 north of Decorah, with 250 feet of vertical, that opened in 1960 and faded out in the 2000s.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 2 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
Hickory Hills Ski Slope lay about 13 miles south of Waterloo off Highway 21, two miles east on a county road. The Cedar Mountain Ski Club kept it up, and later the Waterloo Ski Club, which merged with Cedar Mountain in 1971. The slope had 190 feet of vertical and a rope tow.1
The Midwest Lost Ski Areas Project first finds it in a January 1971 Waterloo Courier report that the slope was open and its tow working, and last in a Des Moines Register story of January 1977. Skimap.org holds a map of it dated 1970.1,2
Sources for this history (2)
- 1Midwest Lost Ski Areas Project · Iowa
- 2Skimap.org · Hickory Hills
Photos
No photographs of Hickory Hills we may republish yet
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Memories
What skiers remember of Hickory Hills, in their own words.
Facts
Location
42.2706° N · 92.3201° W · Iowa
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
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Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain