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Ski guides from 1970 onward list the Orange County Ski Area on Route 416, about two and a half miles south of Montgomery. It was a short hill: 131 feet of vertical from a 407-foot base to a 538-foot top, a longest run of 1,850 feet, and a single T-bar.1
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Lost near Orange County
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- 1962–2015 · 16.1 mi away · New YorkA ski area on Route 17A in Tuxedo, opened in 1962 as Sterling Forest Ski Area, renamed Tuxedo Ridge in 2007, and last open in 2014–15.
- 1960–1978 · 16.3 mi away · New YorkA hotel and ski area above Ellenville, the country's only Chinese American-owned ski resort, that ran on and off from about 1960 until 1978.
- Years not yet collected · 16.3 mi away · New YorkA ski area on North Beacon Mountain by the city of Beacon that grew to three double chairlifts and an advertised 1,000 feet of vertical.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 2 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
Ski guides from 1970 onward list the Orange County Ski Area on Route 416, about two and a half miles south of Montgomery. It was a short hill: 131 feet of vertical from a 407-foot base to a 538-foot top, a longest run of 1,850 feet, and a single T-bar. The listings add snowmaking and night skiing in the 1970s. It still appeared in the 1993 White Book; no source read gives its last season.1
Orange County's Thomas Bull Memorial Park lies on the same road, at 211 Route 416. The county says its development began in 1965 and lists skiing among activities it once offered and no longer does.2
Sources for this history (2)
- 1skikabbalah.com · Orange County Ski Area
- 2Orange County, New York · Thomas Bull Memorial Park
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Memories
What skiers remember of Orange County, in their own words.
Facts
Location
41.4767° N · 74.2697° W · New York
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
all 4all 4, in one list
Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain