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Marriott's Lincolnshire Resort, a hotel of some 400 rooms, ran a small ski slope on its grounds from 1976 to 1983. The hill had 50 to 60 feet of vertical and a single surface lift, listed as a Poma in 1978 and as a T-bar by Colorado Ski History, and it offered night skiing.1,2
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Lost near Lincolnshire Resort
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- Opened 1973 · 16.2 mi away · IllinoisA city-run ski slope on Mount Trashmore, a capped landfill in Evanston's James Park, with two rope tows from 1973 into the 1980s.
- 1967–1986 · 17.1 mi away · IllinoisA ski hill at Ingleside, two miles south of Fox Lake, that ran from 1967 to 1986 with a chairlift, rope tows and night skiing.
- 1962–1974 · 17.3 mi away · IllinoisA small ski area on a former farmstead off Cary-Algonquin Road that ran from 1962 to 1974, with its lodge at the top of the hill.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 2 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
Sources for this history (2)
- 1Midwest Lost Ski Areas Project · Lincolnshire Resort (Marriott)
- 2Colorado Ski History · Lost Areas #26 (The Lost Ski Areas of Illinois), The Colorado Skier, July 30, 1998
Photos
No photographs of Lincolnshire Resort 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 Lincolnshire Resort, in their own words.
Facts
Location
42.1937° N · 87.9241° W · Illinois
OpenSkiMap lists it as abandoned.
Years operated
1976–1983
Closed after the 1983 season. 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