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Ski Butler

Ran 1981–1998. A ski area inside General Butler State Resort Park at Carrollton that opened in 1981 and closed during the 1997–98 winter.

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Ski Butler, also written Ski Butler!, was a ski area inside General Butler State Resort Park, which adjoins Carrollton in Carroll County. It opened in 1981, and in January 1982 an Indianapolis ski columnist counted the newly opened Ski General Butler among the rivals of Ski Starlite in southern Indiana.1,2,3

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Timeline

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  1. 1981Ski Butler opens in General Butler State Resort Park1
  2. 1986Earliest trail map on file at Skimap.org3
  3. 1998Closes during the 1997–98 winter1

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Lost near Ski Butler

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

  • Starlight

    1980–1984 · 39.5 mi away · IndianaA chairlift ski area on State Road 60 near Memphis and Sellersburg, about 13 miles from Louisville, with some 500 feet of vertical, that ran from 1980 to 1984.

  • Long Mountain

    1979–1982 · 68.7 mi away · IndianaA small Brown County ski area on State Road 46 just outside Nashville that opened in the 1979–80 winter and was seized for back taxes in 1982.

  • Nashville Alps

    1979–2002 · 69.7 mi away · IndianaA chairlift ski area on State Road 46 west of Nashville in Brown County that opened in the 1979–80 winter, became Ski World in 1986 and closed around 2002.
All 3 lost ski areas in Kentucky