Skip to content

Lost ski areaIowaMidwest

Silver Creek

Ran 1959–1998. A small ski area east of Humboldt, known over the years as Winter World, Humboldt Winter Playground and Winter Playland, that ran from 1959 to 1998.

Mark it and the Silver Creek sticker is yours.

Overview

Look around

Loading the ground…

Imagery: USGS The National Map · Terrain: Mapzen, USGS and others

Open in Google Earth, opens in a new tabOpen in Google Maps, opens in a new tab

Counting who skied it…

The area lay about three miles east of the junction of U.S. 169 and Iowa 3 at Humboldt, then three-quarters of a mile north.1,2

Read the whole history

Timeline

4 events · swipe

  1. 1959Ski area opens east of Humboldt1
  2. 1978Three rope tows, as Humboldt Winter Playground1
  3. 1987Four rope tows and two T-bars; trail map printed1,2
  4. 1998Ski area closes1

Memories

Skied Silver Creek, 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 Silver Creek

The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.

  • Riverside Hills

    Opened 1966 · 56.2 mi away · IowaA ski area on the river bluffs a mile southwest of Estherville, opened as Holiday Mountain in 1966 and later called Riverside Hills, last mentioned in 2008.

  • Sunset

    Opened 1982 · 69.9 mi away · IowaA small ski area on old Iowa 3 just east of Cherokee, with 145 feet of vertical, recorded from 1982 to 1992.

  • Raccoon River

    Opened 1971 · 81.9 mi away · IowaA small ski area two miles north of Dexter, also called Dexfield Sports Area and Deer Run, with its lodge at the top, that ran from 1971 to about 1986.
All 9 lost ski areas in Iowa