Lost ski areaNew HampshireWhite MountainsNortheast
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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Lost near Mount Pero
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 1 page below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
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
Timeline
- c. 1940A 900-foot rope tow serves a half-mile trail1
Sources for this history (1)
- 1New England Lost Ski Areas Project · Mt. Pero Trails
Photos
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Memories
What skiers remember of Mount Pero, in their own words.
Facts
Location
43.7886° N · 71.7061° W · New Hampshire · White Mountains
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.
Its numbers
all 2all 2, in one list
Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain