Lost ski areaPennsylvaniaMid-Atlantic
Ski Cove
A small 1970s ski area in Zion Grove with one double chair and one rope tow, night skiing and snowmaking.
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Ski Cove Village was a small ski area in Zion Grove that a reader remembers from the 1970s. It had one double chair and one rope tow, night skiing and snowmaking, and a rustic lodge built around a round stone fireplace.1,2
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Lost near Ski Cove
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- Years not yet collected · 15.3 mi away · PennsylvaniaA small ski area on Sharp Mountain at the west end of Pottsville, opened in the mid-1960s, whose lodge later housed the Pottsville Club.
- 1969–1983 · 25.1 mi away · PennsylvaniaA ski area near Lenhartsville in Berks County that opened as Big Valley for the 1969–70 season and closed as Hahn Mountain in the early 1980s.
- 1942–2004 · 30.9 mi away · PennsylvaniaThe ski hill of Split Rock Lodge at Lake Harmony, between Big Boulder and Jack Frost, skied from the 1940s until 2004.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 2 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
Ski Cove Village was a small ski area in Zion Grove that a reader remembers from the 1970s. It had one double chair and one rope tow, night skiing and snowmaking, and a rustic lodge built around a round stone fireplace. The reader learned to ski there in the late 1970s and believes the land is now the Cove Village Association, a gated private housing development. Skimap.org holds a trail map published in 1979.1,2
Timeline
- 1979Trail map published, now held by Skimap.org2
Sources for this history (2)
- 1DCSki · Ski Cove Village: Lost Ski Area
- 2Skimap.org · Ski Cove ski maps
Photos
No photographs of Ski Cove 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 Ski Cove, in their own words.
Facts
Location
40.9059° N · 76.1728° 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