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Sunset

A small ski area on old Iowa 3 just east of Cherokee, with 145 feet of vertical, recorded from 1982 to 1992.

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Sunset stood on old Iowa 3, half a mile east of Cherokee in northwest Iowa, and had 145 feet of vertical. The Midwest Lost Ski Areas Project dates it from 1982, from a Sioux City Journal item that January, to 1992, when a Sioux City Journal advertisement is its last mention.1,2

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Timeline

3 events · swipe

  1. 1982Sunset opens east of Cherokee1
  2. 1984Listed in SKI Magazine; trail map printed1,2
  3. 1992Last mention, a January newspaper advertisement1

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Lost near Sunset

The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.

  • Riverside Hills

    Opened 1966 · 56.3 mi away · IowaA ski area on the river bluffs a mile southwest of Estherville, opened as Holiday Mountain in 1966 and later called Riverside Hills, last mentioned in 2008.

  • Silver Creek

    1959–1998 · 69.9 mi away · IowaA small ski area east of Humboldt, known over the years as Winter World, Humboldt Winter Playground and Winter Playland, that ran from 1959 to 1998.

  • Holiday Hill

    Opened 1963 · 102.1 mi away · South DakotaA small ski hill on the north shore of Lewis and Clark Lake, six miles west of Yankton, run in the mid-1960s.
All 9 lost ski areas in Iowa