Lost ski areaNew JerseyMid-Atlantic
Ski Mountain
A ski area in Pine Hill, New Jersey, open by 1978, whose site became a golf course in 1998.
Overview
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Imagery: USGS The National Map · Terrain: Mapzen, USGS and others
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Ski Mountain was a ski area in Pine Hill; Skimap.org holds a trail map of it from 1978. In the mid-1980s the place also ran as an amusement park, Action Mountain/Ski Mountain, listed as operating from 1984 to 1986.1,2,3
Read the whole historyTodayThe site is a golf course, Trump National Golf Club Philadelphia.1
Timeline
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Photos
Memories
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Lost near Ski Mountain
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- 1972–1986 · 28.6 mi away · New JerseyA small ski area with a double chairlift in Lower Alloways Creek, Salem County, in southern New Jersey's farm country, that ran from 1972 until 1986.
- 1963–1988 · 33.1 mi away · PennsylvaniaA small ski area off Route 1 in Chadds Ford that Richard and Marie Paciaroni started in 1963 and that closed in the late 1980s.
- 1965–1997 · 38.6 mi away · New JerseyA small Mercer County ski hill near Lambertville and the Delaware River, skied from the mid-1960s until early 1997.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 3 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
Ski Mountain was a ski area in Pine Hill; Skimap.org holds a trail map of it from 1978. In the mid-1980s the place also ran as an amusement park, Action Mountain/Ski Mountain, listed as operating from 1984 to 1986. In 1998 a golf course was built on the former ski area.1,2,3
TodayThe site is a golf course, Trump National Golf Club Philadelphia.1
Sources for this history (3)
- 1Wikipedia · Trump National Golf Club Philadelphia
- 2Skimap.org · Ski Mountain
- 3Wikipedia · List of defunct amusement parks in the United States
Photos
No photographs of Ski 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 Ski Mountain, in their own words.
Facts
Location
39.7821° N · 75.0018° W · New Jersey
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