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Holiday Hill

A small ski hill on the north shore of Lewis and Clark Lake, six miles west of Yankton, run in the mid-1960s.

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Holiday Hill was a small ski area on the north shore of Lewis and Clark Lake, six miles west of Yankton, with 260 feet of vertical. The Midwest Lost Ski Areas Project dates it from 1963 and finds no mention of skiing there after the 1966–67 season.1

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Timeline

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  1. 1963Opening year given by the Midwest Lost Ski Areas Project1
  2. 1965A Sioux Falls paper writes about the hill's chalet1
  3. 1967Last mention of skiing, during the 1966–67 season1
  4. 1971The ski equipment is sold1

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Lost near Holiday Hill

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

  • Devil's Nest

    1972–1974 · 10 mi away · NebraskaA short-lived ski area near Crofton in northeast Nebraska, with the state's first chairlift, that ran two seasons from 1972 to 1974.

  • Sunset

    Opened 1982 · 102.1 mi away · IowaA small ski area on old Iowa 3 just east of Cherokee, with 145 feet of vertical, recorded from 1982 to 1992.

  • Riverside Hills

    Opened 1966 · 140.9 mi away · IowaA ski area on the river bluffs a mile southwest of Estherville, opened as Holiday Mountain in 1966 and later called Riverside Hills, last mentioned in 2008.
All 2 lost ski areas in South Dakota