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Oak Hill, near the community of Parks off old Route 66 on the Kaibab National Forest's Williams Ranger District, was an alpine ski area in the 1950s. No source found gives its years, lifts or operators.1,2
Read the whole historyTodayThe hill is the Forest Service's Oak Hill Snow Play Area, with a long, steep sledding run, a shorter one for beginners, and no tow. (2022)1,2
Timeline
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Memories
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Lost near Oak Hill
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- Years not yet collected · 169.2 mi away · ArizonaA small ski hill in the White Mountains town of Greer, with a platter lift and a rope tow, recorded in the early 1980s.
- 1950–1990 · 229.6 mi away · UtahA small Poma-lift ski area in the Blue Mountains about five miles west of Monticello, open from the 1950s until about 1990.
- 1951–1985 · 260.5 mi away · ColoradoA club-run ski area on Highway 145 at Stoner, 26 miles from Cortez, with T-bars and a large vertical drop for its size, open from 1951 to 1985.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 2 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
Oak Hill, near the community of Parks off old Route 66 on the Kaibab National Forest's Williams Ranger District, was an alpine ski area in the 1950s. No source found gives its years, lifts or operators.1,2
TodayThe hill is the Forest Service's Oak Hill Snow Play Area, with a long, steep sledding run, a shorter one for beginners, and no tow. (2022)1,2
Sources for this history (2)
- 1U.S. Department of Agriculture · Kaibab National Forest
- 2azfamily.com (KTVK/KPHO) · List: 7 places to play in the snow (not counting Snowbowl and Sunrise) (February 24, 2022)
Photos
No photographs of Oak Hill 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 Oak Hill, in their own words.
Facts
Location
35.2616° N · 112.0109° W · Arizona
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.
No figures from its operating years are collected yet.
Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain