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Snow Mountain, which NELSAP also heads Snow Haven, was a small ski area in Winterport, about 13 miles south of Bangor off Route 1A. Glenn Parkinson's First Tracks dates it to the 1960s.1
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Lost near Snow Mountain
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- Closed 1973 · 16.3 mi away · MaineA ski area on Bald Mountain in Dedham, near Bangor, begun by the Penobscot Valley Ski Club, that had a chairlift, a T-bar and snowmaking before closing in the 1970s.
- Opened 1966 · 79.9 mi away · MaineA ski area on Coburn Mountain south of Jackman, with a double chairlift and a T-bar, that ran from 1966 into the early 1970s.
- Years not yet collected · 100.4 mi away · MaineA small community ski area with one T-bar on Route 2 in Island Falls that ran from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 1 page below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
Snow Mountain, which NELSAP also heads Snow Haven, was a small ski area in Winterport, about 13 miles south of Bangor off Route 1A. Glenn Parkinson's First Tracks dates it to the 1960s. A Ski Maine listing gave it a 2,350-foot T-bar, two slopes and ten trails, a ski shop and rentals. A couple who moved to Winterport in 1972 recall it running then and folding a few years later. On aerial photos NELSAP sees a wide spread of trails, since grown in, and guesses the vertical at 400 to 500 feet.1
Sources for this history (1)
- 1New England Lost Ski Areas Project · Snow Mountain Ski Area (Snow Haven), Winterport, ME
Photos
No photographs of Snow Mountain we may republish yet
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Memories
What skiers remember of Snow Mountain, in their own words.
Facts
Location
44.6560° N · 68.9457° W · Maine
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
all 2all 2, in one list
Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain