Lost ski areaPennsylvaniaMid-Atlantic
Split Rock
Ran 1942–2004. The ski hill of Split Rock Lodge at Lake Harmony, between Big Boulder and Jack Frost, skied from the 1940s until 2004.
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Split Rock Lodge was built on the shore of Lake Harmony in the early 1940s as a retreat for executives of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, and took its name from a split rock on a nearby hill. By 1942 a Split Rock Ski Club ran two slopes near the lodge, one of which later became Big Boulder; DCSki was told skiing began in 1946.1,2
Read the whole historyTodayThe slopes are kept clear, and the 1960s Poma T-bar still stands beside them. (2021)2
Timeline
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Memories
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Lost near Split Rock
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- Years not yet collected · 13.8 mi away · PennsylvaniaA hotel ski area at the Pocono Manor resort near Mount Pocono, its slopes dropping from a lodge below the hotel, that ran from the 1960s into the 1980s.
- Years not yet collected · 15.8 mi away · PennsylvaniaA small ski hill at the Mount Airy Lodge resort near Mount Pocono, where two chairlifts served gentle slopes that were golf holes in summer.
- Opened 1913 · 19.9 mi away · PennsylvaniaThe ski hill of the Buck Hill Falls resort in the Poconos, where skiing began in the 1913–14 season and lasted into at least the late 1970s.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 3 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
Split Rock Lodge was built on the shore of Lake Harmony in the early 1940s as a retreat for executives of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, and took its name from a split rock on a nearby hill. By 1942 a Split Rock Ski Club ran two slopes near the lodge, one of which later became Big Boulder; DCSki was told skiing began in 1946. For years a rope tow served one short open slope below the rock, later replaced by a T-bar.1,2
In the 1980s, after an ownership change, the lodge took skiing more seriously and added a Borvig double chair to the top of the hill. The area then counted eight trails on 25 acres, with snowmaking and grooming, all of it beginner or low-intermediate terrain. Its vertical never exceeded 200 feet by most accounts, the smallest of the public Pocono areas, though one reader recalled 450 feet.1,2
Midweek business was thin, and Big Boulder and Jack Frost were each within about five or six miles. Skiing ended in 2004, and the double chair went to Mount Peter in New York. The lodge carries on as a hotel, with an indoor water park beside the old base.1,2
TodayThe slopes are kept clear, and the 1960s Poma T-bar still stands beside them. (2021)2
Sources for this history (3)
- 1DCSki · Split Rock Lodge: Lost Ski Area
- 2Avery Zucco Ski History (blog) · Split Rock Ski Area, Lake Harmony, PA (March 7, 2021)
- 3Skimap.org · Split Rock ski map
Photos
No photographs of Split Rock 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 Split Rock, in their own words.
Facts
Location
41.0633° N · 75.6183° W · Pennsylvania
OpenSkiMap lists it as abandoned.
Years operated
1942–2004
Closed after the 2004 season. It stays here as part of the record of U.S. ski areas.
Its numbers
all 4all 4, in one list
Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain