Lost ski areaPennsylvaniaMid-Atlantic
Pocono Manor
A hotel ski area at the Pocono Manor resort near Mount Pocono, its slopes dropping from a lodge below the hotel, that ran from the 1960s into the 1980s.
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The Pocono Manor Hotel opened in 1902 on a hilltop near Mount Pocono, the heart of a 3,500-acre resort. Guests may have skied cross-country trails on the grounds as early as the 1910s or 1920s, and lift-served downhill skiing came in the 1960s.1,2
Read the whole historyTodayThe J-bar's towers, the snowmaking hookups and the pump house remain on the overgrown hillside. (2022)1,2
Timeline
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Memories
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Lost near Pocono Manor
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- Years not yet collected · 2 mi away · PennsylvaniaA small ski hill at the Mount Airy Lodge resort near Mount Pocono, where two chairlifts served gentle slopes that were golf holes in summer.
- 1965–2015 · 6.9 mi away · PennsylvaniaA Poconos ski area near Analomink that opened as Timber Hill in the 1960s and, as Alpine Mountain, closed for skiing in 2015.
- Opened 1913 · 7.9 mi away · PennsylvaniaThe ski hill of the Buck Hill Falls resort in the Poconos, where skiing began in the 1913–14 season and lasted into at least the late 1970s.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 2 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
The Pocono Manor Hotel opened in 1902 on a hilltop near Mount Pocono, the heart of a 3,500-acre resort. Guests may have skied cross-country trails on the grounds as early as the 1910s or 1920s, and lift-served downhill skiing came in the 1960s. Because the hotel sat on a ridge, the ski area was upside down: a small lodge at the top, just below the hotel, with the slopes falling away from it.1,2
Two open slopes and a few connecting trails were served by a J-bar from top to bottom and a shorter lift on the second slope, a T-bar at one time and a rope tow at another. Sources put the vertical at over 200 feet, about 250 feet for the main slope, or about 350 feet. Swiftwater Creek at the foot of the hill fed the snowmaking, and by the end there was night skiing too.1,2
No closing date is recorded. Skiing seems to have ended in the 1980s, and the shorter slope served as a snow tubing hill into the 1990s. The summit lodge became a private home and was later torn down. A fire in 2019 destroyed most of the hotel; afterward the owners spoke of rebuilding the resort, skiing included.1,2
TodayThe J-bar's towers, the snowmaking hookups and the pump house remain on the overgrown hillside. (2022)1,2
Sources for this history (2)
- 1DCSki · Pocono Manor Ski Area: Lost Ski Area
- 2Avery Zucco Ski History (blog) · Pocono Manor Ski Area, Mt. Pocono, PA (December 15, 2022)
Photos
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Memories
What skiers remember of Pocono Manor, in their own words.
Facts
Location
41.0992° N · 75.3577° W · Pennsylvania
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
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Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain