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Mystic Mountain stood off Webber Road near the junction of Routes 13 and 80 in New Woodstock, a few miles south of Cazenovia. A Binghamton paper listed it as a new area for the 1961–62 season, with three slopes, four trails, two lifts and a tow, plus night skiing and ice skating.2,3
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Lost near Mystic Mountain
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- Years not yet collected · 7.6 mi away · New YorkA steep T-bar ski area off Oran Delphi Road in Pompey, west of Cazenovia, listed through the 1970s and closed in the ski slump of the 1980s.
- Opened 1962 · 15.1 mi away · New YorkA golf and ski center at Fayetteville, in the Town of Manlius, that offered skiing from the early 1960s until it announced its closing ahead of a sale.
- Years not yet collected · 15.6 mi away · New YorkAn upside-down ski area in Solon, northeast of Cortland, with its lodge at the top, a double chairlift and bowl skiing, listed in guidebooks from 1970 to 1973.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 5 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
Mystic Mountain stood off Webber Road near the junction of Routes 13 and 80 in New Woodstock, a few miles south of Cazenovia. A Binghamton paper listed it as a new area for the 1961–62 season, with three slopes, four trails, two lifts and a tow, plus night skiing and ice skating.2,3
By the early 1970s guidebooks listed a double chair beside two T-bars, about ten trails, snowmaking and a vertical of 590 to 610 feet. A later summary on skikabbalah gives 680 feet over 13 trails, a northeast exposure and lights on weekends.2,3
Wikipedia gives a first run from 1961 to 1974; over the following decade the area was sold and reopened several times before closing for good in 1985. The Cazenovia Ski Club counts it among the areas lost when skiing hit hard times in the 1980s.1,4,5
Sources for this history (5)
- 1Wikipedia · New Woodstock, New York
- 2skikabbalah.com · MYSTIC MOUNTAIN References
- 3skikabbalah.com · Mystic Mountain
- 4Cazenovia Ski Club · The History of the Cazenovia Ski Club
- 5Oswego County Business · Toggenburg Has Become a Slippery Slope (Aaron Gifford, December 19, 2023)
Photos
No photographs of Mystic Mountain 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 Mystic Mountain, in their own words.
Facts
Location
42.8360° N · 75.8514° W · New York
OpenSkiMap lists it as abandoned.
Years operated
1961–1985
Closed after the 1985 season. It stays here as part of the record of U.S. ski areas.
Its numbers
all 4all 4, in one list
Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain