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Snow Bowl

Ran 1966–1971. A ski area about six miles northwest of Cadiz, near Tappan Lake in east central Ohio, that ran from 1966 to 1971.

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Snow Bowl stood about six miles northwest of Cadiz on Harrison County Road 22, near Tappan Lake; the Midwest Lost Ski Areas Project also places it on Route 5. The project dates it from 1966 to 1971 and gives it 300 feet of vertical.1,2

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Timeline

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  1. 1966Opening year, per the Midwest Lost Ski Areas Project1
  2. 1967Plain Dealer of January 13 announces the opening the next day1
  3. 1968Joins the Plain Dealer's ski school, per a December story1
  4. 1971The ski area closes1

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Lost near Snow Bowl

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

  • Clear Fork Ski Area

    1963–2015 · 73.5 mi away · OhioA ski area on State Route 95 near Butler, south of Mansfield, that opened in 1963, closed in 2005, ran again from 2011 and shut for good in 2015.

  • Chestnut Ridge

    1951–1973 · 80.8 mi away · West VirginiaA club-built rope-tow slope at today's Chestnut Ridge Park east of Morgantown, run from the early 1950s until 1973 or, by some accounts, 1980.

  • Bear Rocks

    Closed 1973 · 85.3 mi away · PennsylvaniaA small ski area inside the Bear Rocks housing development on Chestnut Ridge, east of Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, that ran from the late 1960s into the early 1970s.
All 6 lost ski areas in Ohio