Lost ski areaWyomingBlack HillsRocky Mountains
Sundance Mountain
A ski area two miles south of Sundance, near the South Dakota line, that probably ran only two winters in the mid-1980s.
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The Sundance ski area was about two miles south of the town, near Interstate 90 and the South Dakota line. The Colorado Skier newsletter listed a double chairlift, a T-bar and a rope tow on 75 acres, with 1,000 feet of vertical from a 4,800-foot base to a 5,830-foot top.1
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Lost near Sundance Mountain
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- Closed 1977 · 223.3 mi away · WyomingA small T-bar hill east of Laramie, skied from the 1930s until 1977 and used largely by the university.
- 1971–1986 · 274.3 mi away · ColoradoA one-slope ski hill on a bluff above the Poudre River just outside Greeley, the lowest ski area Colorado ever had, open from 1971 to 1986.
- Years not yet collected · 278.2 mi away · ColoradoA small ski area on the east side of Cameron Pass, Colorado, skied on foot from the 1930s and served by a rope tow from 1946 to about 1951.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 1 page below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
The Sundance ski area was about two miles south of the town, near Interstate 90 and the South Dakota line. The Colorado Skier newsletter listed a double chairlift, a T-bar and a rope tow on 75 acres, with 1,000 feet of vertical from a 4,800-foot base to a 5,830-foot top. Writing in 1998, it thought the area probably ran only in the 1984–85 and 1985–86 seasons, and it said a lack of snow hurt it.1
Timeline
Sources for this history (1)
- 1Colorado Ski History · Lost Areas #25 (15 January 1998)
Photos
No photographs of Sundance Mountain 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 Sundance Mountain, in their own words.
Facts
Location
44.3922° N · 104.3678° W · Wyoming · Black Hills
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 5all 5, in one list
Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain