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Snow Bowl

A ski area in Milton, New Jersey, running in the 1960s, now closed and counted among the state's lost ski areas.

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Snow Bowl was a ski area in Milton, which NELSAP lists among New Jersey's lost ski areas. John Fitzgerald had worked there before he and Jack Kurlander founded Great Gorge, in McAfee, in 1965.1,2,3

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  1. 1965Former Snow Bowl worker John Fitzgerald co-founds Great Gorge2
  2. 1967Earliest dated trail map of the area3

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Lost near Snow Bowl

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

  • Craigmeur

    1937–1998 · 5 mi away · New JerseyNew Jersey's first and longest-running ski area, a small hill off Green Pond Road in Newfoundland that ran from 1937 until 1997 or 1998.

  • Mt. Bethel Ski Hill

    Opened 1965 · 22 mi away · New JerseyA small rope-tow hill in Mansfield Township that ran from the mid-1960s into the early 1970s.

  • Peapack

    Years not yet collected · 22.5 mi away · New JerseyA one-rope-tow beginners' hill near Peapack and Gladstone, open by the late 1950s and still running in 1987.
All 7 lost ski areas in New Jersey