Lost ski areaColoradoFront RangeRocky Mountains
Maggie's Hill
A rope-tow ski hill on the southwest edge of Hot Sulphur Springs, used from the late 1940s into the 1950s or 1960s.
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Maggie's Hill was a rope-tow ski hill on the southwest edge of Hot Sulphur Springs, on the same ridge as the older Bungalow Hill a few hundred yards away. Sky-Hi News counts it as the town's third ski area and says it opened in the late 1940s.1,2
Read the whole historyTodayThe slope is private land just south of the Grand County Courthouse; two rope tow towers still stand, and the tow's drive motor is at the Grand County Museum. (2018)1,2
Timeline
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Memories
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Lost near Maggie's Hill
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- Opened 1911 · 0.3 mi away · ColoradoA small hill in Hot Sulphur Springs where Carl Howelsen gave a ski-jumping exhibition in December 1911, later the town's ski slope with a rope tow.
- 1947–1952 · 2.3 mi away · ColoradoA rope-tow ski hill about two miles southeast of Hot Sulphur Springs that ran from 1947 to 1952.
- Years not yet collected · 4.3 mi away · ColoradoA steep ski slope at a guest ranch west of Granby, offered to winter guests for a few seasons in the 1940s.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 2 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
Maggie's Hill was a rope-tow ski hill on the southwest edge of Hot Sulphur Springs, on the same ridge as the older Bungalow Hill a few hundred yards away. Sky-Hi News counts it as the town's third ski area and says it opened in the late 1940s. In January 1949 the local paper said the tow would run on Saturday afternoons and all day Sunday, for fifty cents.1,2
Colorado Ski History says the hill was in use from the years after World War II through the 1950s. Sky-Hi News says it lasted into the 1960s, longer than any other ski area in town.1,2
TodayThe slope is private land just south of the Grand County Courthouse; two rope tow towers still stand, and the tow's drive motor is at the Grand County Museum. (2018)1,2
Sources for this history (2)
- 1Colorado Ski History · Maggie's Hill
- 2Sky-Hi News · LEFT BEHIND: Exploring Grand County's skiing past through abandoned hills (December 4, 2018)
Photos
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Memories
What skiers remember of Maggie's Hill, in their own words.
Facts
Location
40.0682° N · 106.1041° W · Colorado · Front Range
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.
No figures from its operating years are collected yet.
Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain