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Mount Tom was a private ski hill near Burlington in southeastern Wisconsin, with 175 feet of vertical and a ski jump. MWLSAP dates its start, with a question mark, to 1952 and its last mention to 1980; it links Racine newspaper stories from 1956 on the Racine Ski Club and from 1970 on families skiing at Mt.1
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Lost near Mount Tom
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- 1970–1982 · 9.4 mi away · WisconsinA ski area near Burlington with 192 feet of vertical, open from 1970 until a December 1982 ad said the hill would not open that season.
- 1958–1973 · 11.3 mi away · IllinoisA ski area on the Illinois side of the Wisconsin line, right beside Wilmot Mountain, that ran from 1958 to 1973 with its lodge at the top.
- 1960–1970 · 12.1 mi away · WisconsinA ski hill north of Lake Geneva that Ed Meltzer ran from 1960 to 1970 with 12 runs; its slopes are now part of Hawk's View Golf Club.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 2 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
Mount Tom was a private ski hill near Burlington in southeastern Wisconsin, with 175 feet of vertical and a ski jump. MWLSAP dates its start, with a question mark, to 1952 and its last mention to 1980; it links Racine newspaper stories from 1956 on the Racine Ski Club and from 1970 on families skiing at Mt. Tom.1
A ski-jump archive says that after World War II, Racine's ski club took the steel tower off its worn-out Windy Knoll jump in the city, meaning to use it to rebuild the old wooden jump on Mt. Tom, 18 miles west of Racine. The rebuild never happened.2
Sources for this history (2)
- 1Midwest Lost Ski Areas Project · Mt. Tom (private), Burlington — Wisconsin
- 2Skisprungschanzen.com · Racine
Photos
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Memories
What skiers remember of Mount Tom, in their own words.
Facts
Location
42.6568° N · 88.1890° W · Wisconsin
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
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Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain