Lost ski areaAlaskaCoast Mountains
Petersburg Ski Area
A small club ski hill with a rope tow on Mitkof Island, south of Petersburg's airport, run by the Petersburg Ski Club from 1936.
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The Petersburg Ski Club formed in 1936 and built its cabin that year on a hill south of where the town's airport now stands. A rope tow went in in 1949, serving about 150 feet of vertical on 7.5 acres.1
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Lost near Petersburg Ski Area
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- Opened 1960 · 669.7 mi away · AlaskaA rope-tow ski hill at the old Independence Mine in Hatcher Pass, above Palmer, that ran from 1960 into the late 1970s.
- 1949–1993 · 746.7 mi away · AlaskaThe first downhill ski area in Fairbanks, run by the McCann family on both sides of the Steese Highway at Cleary Summit from 1949 to 1993.
- 1956–1978 · 761.4 mi away · WashingtonA ski area in Mount Pilchuck State Park, east of Granite Falls, Washington, that opened in the mid-1950s and had its last season in 1977–78.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 1 page below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
The Petersburg Ski Club formed in 1936 and built its cabin that year on a hill south of where the town's airport now stands. A rope tow went in in 1949, serving about 150 feet of vertical on 7.5 acres.1
The State of Alaska deeded those 7.5 acres to the club in 1959. Thirteen nearly snowless winters followed, interest faded, and vandals burned the cabin. A new Petersburg Ski Club formed in 1997 and sold the land in 1998.1
Sources for this history (1)
- 1Alaska Lost Ski Areas Project · Petersburg Ski Area
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Memories
What skiers remember of Petersburg Ski Area, in their own words.
Facts
Location
56.7953° N · 132.9325° W · Alaska · Coast Mountains
OpenSkiMap lists it as abandoned.
Years operated
from 1936 · the year it closed is 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