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Lost near Oyster Bay
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- Years not yet collected · 9.2 mi away · New YorkA small rope-tow ski hill off Dix Hills Road in Huntington, Long Island, that ran from before 1960 until about the mid-1980s.
- 1965–1980 · 27.3 mi away · New YorkA ski hill on Bald Hill in Farmingville, Long Island, that ran from 1965 to 1980 and was the largest ski area the island ever had.
- Closed 1986 · 39.7 mi away · New YorkA state-park ski area in Harriman, west of Bear Mountain, with a T-bar, a J-bar and rope tows on three open slopes, that closed in 1986.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 3 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
The Oyster Bay Ski Center sat off what is now Ski Lane in the Mill Neck and Oyster Bay area, near Lake Avenue and Glen Cove Road. Oscar Summers was its president in 1948 and ran it into the mid-1950s. In 1949–50 it had two rope tows, an East Tow and a North Tow, on open slopes 600 and 800 feet long; a third tow, driven by the back wheel of a pickup truck, came in 1951.1,2,3
With no snowmaking, it opened only when a couple of inches lay on the ground, on weekends and holidays with night skiing on weekday evenings. Guide listings run from 1949 to 1959; NELSAP says it began before 1949, and LongIsland.com notes one account of about 1947. Thin Long Island winters and new building ended it. The Oyster Bay Historical Society now keeps signs from the ski center, six of them given by the Summers family.1,2,3
Sources for this history (3)
- 1New England Lost Ski Areas Project · Oyster Bay Ski Center
- 2LongIsland.com · Long Island's Lost Ski Slope: The Oyster Bay Ski Center Once Operated in Mill Neck (February 23, 2026)
- 3American Association for State and Local History · How Exhibitions Develop Collections (November 30, 2016)
Photos
No photographs of Oyster Bay 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 Oyster Bay, in their own words.
Facts
Location
40.8720° N · 73.5434° 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 1all 1, in one list
Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain