Lost ski areaNorth CarolinaBlue Ridge MountainsSoutheast
Scaly Mountain
Closed after the 2004 season. A small family-run ski hill in Scaly Mountain, western North Carolina, that ended downhill skiing after 2003–04 and turned to snow tubing.
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Ski Scaly was a small area on a large hill in the community of Scaly Mountain. It had three trails on a drop of about 225 feet, served by three lifts including a double chair; Wikipedia gives 223 feet, from 3,802 feet at the base to 4,026 at the top.1,2
Read the whole historyTodayThe old ski hill runs snow tubing from late October to late March, with summer turf tubing and an alpine coaster.2
Timeline
2 events · swipe
Memories
Skied Scaly Mountain, or worked there?
Tell us what you remember, or what this page has wrong. Memories show here, credited to you, after we read them; facts are checked against a source before they change a figure.
Lost near Scaly Mountain
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- 1969–2004 · 2.8 mi away · GeorgiaGeorgia's only ski area: five runs and a chairlift at the Sky Valley resort in Rabun County, from about 1969 until 2004 or 2005.
- Years not yet collected · 104.1 mi away · GeorgiaA dry ski slope in Vinings, just northwest of Atlanta, where people skied on synthetic turf and plastic pellets for a few years in the 1970s.
- 1969–1978 · 106.5 mi away · TennesseeA ski area on Renegade Mountain, off the Crab Orchard exit of Interstate 40 east of Crossville, that ran from 1969 to 1978.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 2 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
Ski Scaly was a small area on a large hill in the community of Scaly Mountain. It had three trails on a drop of about 225 feet, served by three lifts including a double chair; Wikipedia gives 223 feet, from 3,802 feet at the base to 4,026 at the top. Readers on DCSki remember a family operation, with Gene Head running the lifts and snowmaking and Susan the lodge, kitchen and post office, and a place where many people learned to ski.1,2
Downhill skiing ended after the 2003–04 winter. The hill reopened in December 2004 for snow tubing only, and the lifts were taken away, leaving foundations and lift shacks.1,2
TodayThe old ski hill runs snow tubing from late October to late March, with summer turf tubing and an alpine coaster.2
Sources for this history (2)
- 1DCSki · Scaly Mountain
- 2Wikimedia Foundation · Scaly Mountain, North Carolina
Photos
No photographs of Scaly Mountain 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 Scaly Mountain, in their own words.
Facts
Location
35.0218° N · 83.3059° W · North Carolina · Blue Ridge Mountains
OpenStreetMap still maps 1 lift here; OpenSkiMap lists it as abandoned.
Years operated
until 2004 · the year it opened is not yet collected
Closed after the 2004 season. It stays here as part of the record of U.S. ski areas.
Its numbers
all 5all 5, in one list
Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain