Lost ski areaNew HampshireWhite MountainsNortheast
Huckins Hill
A Plymouth ski hill founded by Fred Pabst, with one of New England's first overhead lifts, a J-bar, skied from before 1938 into the 1940s.
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Huckins Hill was one of three ski areas that grew up in Plymouth before World War II, alongside Wendy's Slope and Frontenac. Fred Pabst, who also started Oak Hill and Bromley, founded it, and its 1,800-foot J-bar, a hook-type overhead cable tow, was among the earliest overhead lifts in New England.1,2
Read the whole historyTodayNothing remains; the hill is visible from northbound Interstate 93, but no trails show.1
Timeline
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Memories
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Lost near Huckins Hill
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- Years not yet collected · 1.8 mi away · New HampshireA rope-tow trail on Mount Pero in Plymouth, dated by NELSAP to the 1940s, that may have been linked to the Frontenac area.
- Closed 1960 · 2 mi away · New HampshireThe original Frontenac, a rope-tow area on the north side of Stage Coach Hill just south of Plymouth, skied from about 1937 until 1960.
- Closed 1995 · 2.1 mi away · New HampshireA ski school slope on Stage Coach Hill south of Plymouth, started around 1937, that later became Frontenac's East Slope and, briefly, Lynx Creek.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 2 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
Huckins Hill was one of three ski areas that grew up in Plymouth before World War II, alongside Wendy's Slope and Frontenac. Fred Pabst, who also started Oak Hill and Bromley, founded it, and its 1,800-foot J-bar, a hook-type overhead cable tow, was among the earliest overhead lifts in New England. The lift rose 350 feet to six trails a quarter to three quarters of a mile long, open to every level of skier. Winter guides list it from 1938–39 to 1940–41.1,2
The hill closed in the 1940s, when Pabst opened Bromley and moved the J-bar there. Nothing of the area remains: the hill can be seen from northbound Interstate 93, but its old trails have grown in.1
TodayNothing remains; the hill is visible from northbound Interstate 93, but no trails show.1
Sources for this history (2)
- 1New England Lost Ski Areas Project · Huckins Hill
- 2New England Lost Ski Areas Project · Frontenac (The Original)
Photos
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Memories
What skiers remember of Huckins Hill, in their own words.
Facts
Location
43.7752° N · 71.6745° W · New Hampshire · White Mountains
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 3all 3, in one list
Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain