Lynx Creek

Wendy's Slope began around 1937 on Stage Coach Hill, just south of Plymouth. Its founder, Wendelyn Hiltie from Switzerland, ran the Plymouth area's ski school there, and in 1939 an 800-foot tow served a 400-foot-wide slope with 200 feet of drop. When Hiltie left during World War II to teach skiing in South America, the owners of neighboring Frontenac bought the slope, joined the two at the top and called it all Frontenac, with Wendy's as the East Slope. After Plymouth zoned the North Slope for homes in 1960, the East Slope kept the name alone.¹

George and Nancy Greer took over in 1962, closed it to the public and ran it as a ski camp, which stayed popular through the 1970s and 1980s. In 1969 they added a 920-foot Mueller T-bar, which NELSAP counts among the steepest in New England. The camp closed in 1991 as skiers drifted to bigger areas.¹

In 1994 Dan Burgess and Bill Tollenger leased the hill, opened a coffee shop in the base lodge, ran the T-bar and rope tow on $5 tickets and named it Lynx Creek. It opened in December 1994 and lasted only that winter, with more money going out than coming in. The T-bar was later sold to Cosmic Hill, a private area in Vermont.¹

TodayThe renovated lodge is rented out as the Frontenac Ski Lodge, with no lift-served skiing.¹