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Lowenberg, German for Lyon Mountain, was meant to be one of the largest ski resorts in the East. Plattsburgh developers planned it in the 1960s on the slopes above Chazy Lake, hoping to catch Canadian skiers on their way to Whiteface: up to 30 chairlifts and 50 trails, a village of chalets, a hotel and a marina on the lake.1,2,3
Read the whole historyTodayThe T-bar's cable, with bars still dangling, runs between its towers up the old lift line near the Lyon Mountain trailhead. (2026)3
Timeline
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Memories
Skied Lowenberg, or worked there?
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Lost near Lowenberg
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- 1948–1960 · 22.9 mi away · New YorkNew York State's first major ski area, on the wind-scoured north side of Whiteface Mountain near Wilmington, which ran from 1948 until 1960.
- Years not yet collected · 23.7 mi away · New YorkPaleface Ski Center, a ski area on Bassett Mountain beside Route 86 in Jay, east of Wilmington, with one double chairlift and a T-bar.
- Years not yet collected · 28.8 mi away · New YorkThe Lake Placid Club's own ski hill north of Mirror Lake, served by T-bars, which opened to the public in 1976 as Mt. Whitney Ski Center.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 5 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
Lowenberg, German for Lyon Mountain, was meant to be one of the largest ski resorts in the East. Plattsburgh developers planned it in the 1960s on the slopes above Chazy Lake, hoping to catch Canadian skiers on their way to Whiteface: up to 30 chairlifts and 50 trails, a village of chalets, a hotel and a marina on the lake. A company brochure offered custom chalets from $9,500.1,2,3
Money ran short. Only a Hall T-bar was built, with a small parking area and three or four trails; Skikabbalah gives it 390 feet of vertical, an Adirondack Explorer writer 250. A planned double chair that would have opened about 1,060 feet of vertical never came. After about three seasons of on-and-off operation the area shut down in 1969 and was soon abandoned.1,2,3,4
New York State bought most of the mountain in 2008. The T-bar's cable still hangs between its towers near the Lyon Mountain trailhead, and backcountry skiers use the old trails as glades.1,2,3
TodayThe T-bar's cable, with bars still dangling, runs between its towers up the old lift line near the Lyon Mountain trailhead. (2026)3
Sources for this history (5)
- 1Adirondack Explorer · Lost Ski Areas of the Northern Adirondacks (book review, March 2, 2015)
- 2Adirondack Life · Glade Runners (Connie Prickett, April 2012)
- 3Adirondack Explorer · Lift line to Lyon Mountain (Tom French, June 30, 2026)
- 4Skikabbalah · Lowenberg
- 5Skimap.org · Lowenberg
Photos
No photographs of Lowenberg 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 Lowenberg, in their own words.
Facts
Location
44.7237° N · 73.8418° W · New York · Adirondack Mountains
OpenSkiMap lists it as abandoned.
Years operated
until 1969 · the year it opened is not yet collected
Closed after the 1969 season. 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