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Paradise Valley

Ran 1970–1982. A ski area near Burlington with 192 feet of vertical, open from 1970 until a December 1982 ad said the hill would not open that season.

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Paradise Valley Ski Resort was near Burlington in southeastern Wisconsin, on Ski Hill Drive in Spring Prairie. MWLSAP dates it from 1970 and gives it 192 feet of vertical; in 1974 it had four cable tows with handles.1,3,4

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  1. 1970Paradise Valley opens, by MWLSAP's date1,3
  2. 1974Four handle tows serve the hill; a trail map is published1,4
  3. 1982December ad says the ski hill will not open this season1,2

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