Lost ski areaPennsylvaniaMid-Atlantic
PocoNorth
A small ski area on a ridge west of Hawley, north of Lake Wallenpaupack, with a double chair and a T-bar, that ran in the 1960s and into the 1970s.
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PocoNorth, also written Poco-North, stood on a north-facing ridge about two miles west of Hawley, off Route 6 in Wayne County, just north of Lake Wallenpaupack. A 1969 ski atlas listed 416 feet of vertical, a double chair, a T-bar, two tows, two slopes and four trails, night skiing and snowmaking; a visitor who mapped the site thought the true vertical nearer 350 feet.1
Read the whole historyTodayThe lifts are gone save their concrete footings, the lower trails are heavily overgrown, and only the lodge's stone pillars remain. (2005)1
Timeline
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Memories
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Lost near PocoNorth
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- Years not yet collected · 5.7 mi away · PennsylvaniaA small family ski area at South Tafton in the Poconos, first called Paper Birch, with its lodge at the top, that ran for over forty years.
- Opened 1913 · 20 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.
- Closed 2004 · 25.5 mi away · PennsylvaniaA ski area at Camp Lohikan near Lake Como, close to the New York line, once called Sno-Hill, whose four lifts served two hills until 2004.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 2 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
PocoNorth, also written Poco-North, stood on a north-facing ridge about two miles west of Hawley, off Route 6 in Wayne County, just north of Lake Wallenpaupack. A 1969 ski atlas listed 416 feet of vertical, a double chair, a T-bar, two tows, two slopes and four trails, night skiing and snowmaking; a visitor who mapped the site thought the true vertical nearer 350 feet. The double chair had a mid-station on a knoll, and a separate learning hill lay a long walk from the base lodge.1
Readers who skied there from the mid-1960s into the early 1970s remember a modern lodge built around a big central fireplace, a strict ski school, and cheap tickets and season passes. One recalls it closing around 1973; another heard that its chair was sold to Paper Birch, now Tanglwood, in the mid-1970s. Fire later destroyed the lodge, after the area had closed, one reader says.1
TodayThe lifts are gone save their concrete footings, the lower trails are heavily overgrown, and only the lodge's stone pillars remain. (2005)1
Sources for this history (2)
- 1DCSki · PocoNorth: Lost Ski Area
- 2Skimap.org · PocoNorth ski map
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Memories
What skiers remember of PocoNorth, in their own words.
Facts
Location
41.4839° N · 75.2241° 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