Lost ski areaPennsylvaniaMid-Atlantic
Montrose Ski Bowl / Spruce Run
Ran 1935–1970. A rope-tow ski area just south of Montrose in Susquehanna County that opened in 1935 and was known in its later years as Spruce Run.
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The Montrose Ski Bowl opened in 1935, using equipment the Commonwealth Telephone Company gave to a group of skiers from Binghamton, New York, and Montrose. It had two rope tows, a big one and a little one, and five or six trails, and a lodge with a large round hearth fireplace.1
Read the whole historyTodayThe old tow motor house still stands, in poor shape. (2007)1
Timeline
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Memories
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Lost near Montrose Ski Bowl / Spruce Run
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- 1965–1978 · 15 mi away · New YorkA mid-sized T-bar ski area off Maxian Road south of Binghamton that ran from the mid-1960s to the late 1970s and is now a county park.
- Closed 2004 · 30 mi away · PennsylvaniaA ski area at Camp Lohikan near Lake Como, close to the New York line, once called Sno-Hill, whose four lifts served two hills until 2004.
- Years not yet collected · 41.2 mi away · PennsylvaniaA small ski area on a ridge west of Hawley, north of Lake Wallenpaupack, with a double chair and a T-bar, that ran in the 1960s and into the 1970s.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 1 page below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
The Montrose Ski Bowl opened in 1935, using equipment the Commonwealth Telephone Company gave to a group of skiers from Binghamton, New York, and Montrose. It had two rope tows, a big one and a little one, and five or six trails, and a lodge with a large round hearth fireplace. Townspeople ran it until World War II. After the war, skiers came to Montrose by train and filled the Montrose Inn on busy weekends.1
Several operators followed, among them Dick and Chick Nealy and Bill and Winnie Paulsen. The last were Bill Heinz and Elmer Taylor with five partners from Scranton, and Taylor and his wife ran a small ski shop at the hill. Local skiers of the 1960s and 1970s knew it as Spruce Run. Joe Rogers, who grew up in Montrose, gives 1970 as the closing year; another reader skied there for two or three seasons from 1970 and puts the closing nearer 1973.1
TodayThe old tow motor house still stands, in poor shape. (2007)1
Sources for this history (1)
- 1DCSki · Montrose Ski Bowl
Photos
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Memories
What skiers remember of Montrose Ski Bowl / Spruce Run, in their own words.
Facts
Location
41.8178° N · 75.8861° W · Pennsylvania
OpenSkiMap lists it as abandoned.
Years operated
1935–1970
Closed after the 1970 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