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Mount Pero

A rope-tow trail on Mount Pero in Plymouth, dated by NELSAP to the 1940s, that may have been linked to the Frontenac area.

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The guidebook Where to Ski listed Mount Pero in Plymouth with a 900-foot rope tow serving a half-mile trail, open on weekends and holidays. NELSAP dates it to the 1940s and suggests it may have been tied to the Frontenac area; nothing more is known of it.1

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  1. c. 1940A 900-foot rope tow serves a half-mile trail1

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Lost near Mount Pero

The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.

  • Huckins Hill

    Years not yet collected · 1.8 mi away · New HampshireA Plymouth ski hill founded by Fred Pabst, with one of New England's first overhead lifts, a J-bar, skied from before 1938 into the 1940s.

  • Frontenac

    Closed 1960 · 2.9 mi away · New HampshireThe original Frontenac, a rope-tow area on the north side of Stage Coach Hill just south of Plymouth, skied from about 1937 until 1960.

  • Wendy's Slope

    Closed 1995 · 3.2 mi away · New HampshireA ski school slope on Stage Coach Hill south of Plymouth, started around 1937, that later became Frontenac's East Slope and, briefly, Lynx Creek.
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