Lost ski areaNew HampshireOssipee HillsNortheast
Ossipee Mountain
Closed after the 1992 season. A small family T-bar area in Moultonborough with a 370-foot drop, open to the public from about 1970 until 1992.
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Ossipee Mountain was a small family ski area on private land in Moultonborough, with a 370-foot drop. The owner, John Viano, recalled that its Roebling T-bar went up around 1970.1
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Lost near Ossipee Mountain
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- 1949–1985 · 8.1 mi away · New HampshireA ski area on Nickerson Mountain in West Ossipee, New Hampshire, known for a gondola that crossed the highway, open from the 1940s until 1985.
- Closed 1984 · 11.9 mi away · New HampshireA hotel ski area at Weirs Beach on Lake Winnipesaukee, with a double chairlift and night skiing, that ran into the early 1980s.
- Years not yet collected · 16 mi away · New HampshireA Plymouth ski hill founded by Fred Pabst, with one of New England's first overhead lifts, a J-bar, skied from before 1938 into the 1940s.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 1 page below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
Ossipee Mountain was a small family ski area on private land in Moultonborough, with a 370-foot drop. The owner, John Viano, recalled that its Roebling T-bar went up around 1970. Listings from 1977–78 to 1992 describe a 1,400-foot T-bar, rated at 1,200 skiers an hour by 1987, and five tree-lined trails from beginner to expert, the longest half a mile.1
A skier from the 1979–83 years remembered the lodge burning to the ground, rental equipment and all, after the owner's son left a second-floor woodstove open one night. A 1992 listing shows the area closed for good. Contributors later reported that the family still kept a few trails clear and ran the lift for themselves and their friends.1
Sources for this history (1)
- 1New England Lost Ski Areas Project · Ossipee Mountain
Photos
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Memories
What skiers remember of Ossipee Mountain, in their own words.
Facts
Location
43.7601° N · 71.3537° W · New Hampshire · Ossipee Hills
OpenSkiMap lists it as abandoned.
Years operated
until 1992 · the year it opened is not yet collected
Closed after the 1992 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