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Mus-Ski Mountain, also called Muskellunge, was a ski hill 4 miles west of Sayner on Highway N, between Sayner and Boulder Junction. The landform itself is named Musky Mountain.1,2,3,4
Read the whole historyTodayThe hill is the site of the Lakeland Area Mountain Bike Organization's Musky Mountain trails, begun in 2023. (2023)3
Timeline
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Memories
Skied Mus-Ski, or worked there?
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Lost near Mus-Ski
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- Years not yet collected · 19.9 mi away · WisconsinA small ski hill run by the Chanticleer Inn, a lake resort at Eagle River, perhaps from 1961 and still listed in 1975.
- 1954–1978 · 30.3 mi away · WisconsinA small ski area in the Nicolet National Forest east of Three Lakes, run with the Northernaire resort, that MWLSAP dates from 1954 to 1978.
- 1958–1971 · 37 mi away · MichiganA small rope-tow ski hill in Wakefield, in Michigan's western Upper Peninsula, that opened for the 1958–59 winter and last ran around 1971.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 4 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
Mus-Ski Mountain, also called Muskellunge, was a ski hill 4 miles west of Sayner on Highway N, between Sayner and Boulder Junction. The landform itself is named Musky Mountain. MWLSAP dates the ski area from 1956 and gives it 200 feet of vertical; a Star Lake local history says its first full season was 1957, and the Lakeland Area Mountain Bike Organization dates it from 1957 to 1970. Skimap.org holds a 1957 trail map.1,2,3,4
Skiing ended in 1970. In July 2023 the bike group began building trails on the old hill, where the Wisconsin DNR has set aside 15 miles of mountain-bike trail, and it plans to name a series of downhill runs after the old ski runs.1,3
TodayThe hill is the site of the Lakeland Area Mountain Bike Organization's Musky Mountain trails, begun in 2023. (2023)3
Sources for this history (4)
- 1Midwest Lost Ski Areas Project · Mus-Ski Mountain (Muskellunge), Sayner — Wisconsin
- 2starlake.org · Skiing
- 3Lakeland Area Mountain Bike Organization (LAMBO) · Yes, it FINALLY happened: Musky Mountain Trail Groundbreaking (July 24, 2023)
- 4Skimap.org · Mus-Ski ski maps
Photos
No photographs of Mus-Ski we may republish yet
Its old photos and trail maps live on the sites that collected them, and Google finds the rest.
Memories
What skiers remember of Mus-Ski, in their own words.
Facts
Location
45.9933° N · 89.5994° W · Wisconsin
OpenSkiMap lists it as abandoned.
Years operated
1956–1970
Closed after the 1970 season. It stays here as part of the record of U.S. ski areas.
Its numbers
all 1all 1, in one list
Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain