Lost ski areaConnecticutNortheast
Ohoho
Closed after the 1989 season. A small Christmas-themed ski area in Woodstock where skiers parked at the summit lodge and skied down, which closed in 1989.
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Ohoho gave its trails Christmas names such as North Pole, Blitzen, Comet and Mistletoe, and used Santa Claus as its logo. Joe Campert, a pilot who lived near the hill, cut much of the trail system himself with a bulldozer.1
Read the whole historyTodayThe summit lodge is a private home.1
Timeline
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Memories
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Lost near Ohoho
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- 1965–1980 · 27.8 mi away · Rhode IslandA T-bar ski area on Escoheag Hill in West Greenwich that ran from the mid-1960s until about 1980.
- Closed 2006 · 30.4 mi away · MassachusettsA small ski area between Barre and South Barre, first called the Barre Ski Tow, that ran on and off for half a century until a T-bar fire in 2006.
- 1967–2000 · 31.6 mi away · MassachusettsA two-chairlift ski area on Oak Hill in Franklin that ran from the 1967–68 winter until February 2000.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 1 page below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
Ohoho gave its trails Christmas names such as North Pole, Blitzen, Comet and Mistletoe, and used Santa Claus as its logo. Joe Campert, a pilot who lived near the hill, cut much of the trail system himself with a bulldozer. The layout ran upside down: skiers parked at the top, by a three-story lodge whose main window was shaped like a Christmas tree, and skied down to the lifts.1
NELSAP's page gives 1971 in its heading and says elsewhere that the area ran from 1977. It had a 1,350-foot Mueller T-bar and three rope tows on 300 feet of vertical, with ten trails, and added snowmaking after its first season. NELSAP lists 1989 as the year it closed.1
TodayThe summit lodge is a private home.1
Sources for this history (1)
- 1New England Lost Ski Areas Project · Ohoho
Photos
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Memories
What skiers remember of Ohoho, in their own words.
Facts
Location
41.9615° N · 72.0527° W · Connecticut
OpenSkiMap lists it as abandoned.
Years operated
until 1989 · the year it opened is not yet collected
Closed after the 1989 season. It stays here as part of the record of U.S. ski areas.
Its numbers
all 3all 3, in one list
Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain