Lost ski areaIdahoRocky Mountains
Sunset Lodge
A short-lived one-chairlift ski area beside the highway north of Island Park, near the turnoff to Ennis.
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Sunset was a short-lived ski area with a single chairlift beside the main highway north of Island Park, just past the turnoff to Ennis. The North Fremont Ski Club skied there; one member recalled a narrow, bumpy hill and a lift that often broke down.1
Read the whole historyTodayThe rusting chairlift is still visible from the highway. (2015)1
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Memories
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Lost near Sunset Lodge
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- Years not yet collected · 24.2 mi away · MontanaLakeview Mountain, 28 miles east of Monida amid Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, offered skiing and ski touring by snow coach in guides from 1971 to 1975.
- Closed 1985 · 33.5 mi away · IdahoA small Forest Service ski hill east of Ashton, Idaho's second ski area after Sun Valley, that ran from about 1940 until the 1984–85 winter.
- Closed 1971 · 76.8 mi away · IdahoA ski area on the Swan Valley side of Pine Creek Pass, known for a radio station's ski school that bused in eastern Idaho children, which shut down in 1971.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 1 page below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
Sunset was a short-lived ski area with a single chairlift beside the main highway north of Island Park, just past the turnoff to Ennis. The North Fremont Ski Club skied there; one member recalled a narrow, bumpy hill and a lift that often broke down. Its rusting chair could still be seen from the road in 2015.1
TodayThe rusting chairlift is still visible from the highway. (2015)1
Timeline
Sources for this history (1)
- 1Teton Valley Magazine · A Skiing Heritage (Karen Russell, November 1, 2015)
Photos
No photographs of Sunset Lodge 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 Sunset Lodge, in their own words.
Facts
Location
44.6352° N · 111.3243° W · Idaho
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.
No figures from its operating years are collected yet.
Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain