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St. Lawrence University owned and ran the Snow Bowl, on Route 56 just south of the hamlet of South Colton in St.1,2,3
Read the whole historyTodayLittle is left on the site but the remains of a large snack bar. (2018)3
Timeline
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Memories
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Lost near St.Lawrence University Snow Bowl
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- Years not yet collected · 6.3 mi away · New YorkSeven Springs Sports Center, a small ski area on the Parishville–Colton highway near Parishville, listed in ski guides of the early 1970s.
- 1965–1979 · 34.2 mi away · New YorkA family ski hill on Route 3 west of Harrisville with a T-bar and a J-bar, open from 1965 to 1979.
- Years not yet collected · 44.8 mi away · New YorkA small in-town beginner hill behind the Lake Placid Center in Lake Placid, served for 37 years by a rope tow and later also by a Poma lift.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 5 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
St. Lawrence University owned and ran the Snow Bowl, on Route 56 just south of the hamlet of South Colton in St. Lawrence County. The state's Department of Environmental Conservation says the university opened the ski area in 1937; the Adirondack Almanack dates its first season to 1950–51. It grew to take in downhill slopes, several ski jumps and cross-country trails, and by the early 1950s it was counted the largest university-run ski center in the country.1,2,3
Skikabbalah's lost New York pages give it a 300-foot vertical drop and a T-bar that carried both skiers and jumpers, and say the university's students used the ridge for practice and competition. A ski-jump archive lists jumps with K-points of 60, 40 and 15 metres and says little of the main jump can be made out today.4,5
Use fell off over time, and the area closed in 1982; it was sold in 2007. In 2018 a regional public radio report said only the remains of a large snack bar were left. A 797-acre state forest nearby carries its name.2,3
TodayLittle is left on the site but the remains of a large snack bar. (2018)3
Sources for this history (5)
- 1Adirondack Almanack (Adirondack Explorer) · South Colton Snow Bowl Presentation Planned (January 12, 2018)
- 2New York State Department of Environmental Conservation · Snow Bowl State Forest
- 3North Country Public Radio · Remembering SLU's Snow Bowl as a state-of-the-art skiing spot in the North Country (Todd Moe, January 12, 2018)
- 4Skikabbalah · St. Lawrence (Snow Bowl)
- 5skisprungschanzen.com · South Colton
Photos
No photographs of St.Lawrence University Snow Bowl we may republish yet
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Memories
What skiers remember of St.Lawrence University Snow Bowl, in their own words.
Facts
Location
44.4892° N · 74.8638° W · New York
OpenSkiMap lists it as abandoned.
Years operated
1937–1982
Closed after the 1982 season. It stays here as part of the record of U.S. ski areas.
Its numbers
all 1all 1, in one list
Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain