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Sawkill Family Ski Center on Hill Road in Kingston was a small, low-cost place to learn, far less daunting than the big Catskill resorts. Local families skied and tubed there through the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s, and in summer the site ran waterslides, mini golf and go-karts.1
Read the whole historyTodayThe closed ski center's nearly 20-acre property is for sale, marketed for future development. (2026)1
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Memories
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Lost near Sawkill Family Ski Center
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- Opened 1964 · 14.7 mi away · New YorkThe Bonticou Ski Area, a small rope-tow and T-bar slope on Mohonk Mountain House land in New Paltz, open from 1964 into the early 1970s.
- 1964–1978 · 19.1 mi away · New YorkSki Minne, a small intermediate ski center at Lake Minnewaska in the Shawangunks, opened by hotelier Ken Phillips in the mid-1960s and closed in the late 1970s.
- 1960–1978 · 26.6 mi away · New YorkA hotel and ski area above Ellenville, the country's only Chinese American-owned ski resort, that ran on and off from about 1960 until 1978.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 2 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
Sawkill Family Ski Center on Hill Road in Kingston was a small, low-cost place to learn, far less daunting than the big Catskill resorts. Local families skied and tubed there through the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s, and in summer the site ran waterslides, mini golf and go-karts.1
Costlier snowmaking, rising insurance, less reliable winters and competition from larger resorts wore on it, and it has shut down. No source read gives its first or last season. In 2026 the nearly 20-acre property was listed for sale at $1.95 million.1,2
TodayThe closed ski center's nearly 20-acre property is for sale, marketed for future development. (2026)1
Timeline
- 2026The former ski center's property is listed for sale1
Sources for this history (2)
- 1WPDH · Kingston, NY Attraction From 1980s Goes on the Market (May 19, 2026)
- 2skiresort.info · Ski resort Sawkill Ski
Photos
No photographs of Sawkill Family Ski Center we may republish yet
Its old photos and trail maps live on the sites that collected them, and Google finds the rest.
Memories
What skiers remember of Sawkill Family Ski Center, in their own words.
Facts
Location
41.9852° N · 74.0439° W · New York · Catskill Mountains
OpenStreetMap still maps 1 lift here; 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.
No figures from its operating years are collected yet.
Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain