Lost ski areaMassachusettsNortheast
Petticoat Hill
A small ski development with one rope tow on Petticoat Hill in Williamsburg, listed in the 1949 Massachusetts Ski Guide.
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The 1949 Massachusetts Ski Guide lists a ski area of about 50 acres on Petticoat Hill in Williamsburg. A single tow, 1,000 feet long, served its slopes and trails, which ran from novice to expert, and its ski house had a snack bar.1
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Lost near Petticoat Hill
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- 1960–1998 · 10.7 mi away · MassachusettsA ski area on Mount Tom in Holyoke, Massachusetts, with chairlifts, snowmaking and night skiing, open from 1960 until 1998.
- Years not yet collected · 11.7 mi away · MassachusettsA small rope-tow hill on the Amherst College campus that the college ran from the 1950s until about 1973.
- 1949–1989 · 13.4 mi away · MassachusettsA family-run ski area on Route 9 in West Cummington that operated from the 1949–50 winter until March 1989.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 1 page below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
The 1949 Massachusetts Ski Guide lists a ski area of about 50 acres on Petticoat Hill in Williamsburg. A single tow, 1,000 feet long, served its slopes and trails, which ran from novice to expert, and its ski house had a snack bar. Frank Vayda ran it, and skiers could come by bus from Northampton, eight miles off. Neither its first nor its last season is known.1
Timeline
- 1949Listed in the Massachusetts Ski Guide with a 1,000-foot tow1
Sources for this history (1)
- 1New England Lost Ski Areas Project · Petticoat Hill
Photos
No photographs of Petticoat Hill we may republish yet
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Memories
What skiers remember of Petticoat Hill, in their own words.
Facts
Location
42.3815° N · 72.7448° W · Massachusetts
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 2all 2, in one list
Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain