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The Pines hotel in South Fallsburg ran its own ski slope, just off Laurel Park Road. By December 1965 the resort had put in an ice rink, a ski chalet and a double chairlift, which Abandoned Online calls the first chairlift of its type in the southern Catskills.1,2
Read the whole historyTodayThe resort's remaining buildings stand abandoned and damaged by repeated fires. (2024)2
Timeline
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Memories
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Lost near The Pines
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- Opened 1959 · 2.8 mi away · New YorkAn upside-down ski area by Woodridge in Sullivan County, New York, that opened as Davos in 1959 and later went by Big Vanilla at Davos.
- Years not yet collected · 4.3 mi away · New YorkThe ski slope of the Concord Resort Hotel at Kiamesha Lake, east of Monticello, served by two T-bars and two rope tows.
- Years not yet collected · 11.6 mi away · New YorkThe one-trail ski slope of the Nevele, a Catskills resort hotel outside Ellenville, served by a double chair and a rope tow.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 3 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
The Pines hotel in South Fallsburg ran its own ski slope, just off Laurel Park Road. By December 1965 the resort had put in an ice rink, a ski chalet and a double chairlift, which Abandoned Online calls the first chairlift of its type in the southern Catskills. Skikabbalah's lost New York pages give the slope 160 feet of vertical, served by the double chair and two rope tows, and say snowmaking covered its trails for skiing by day and by night.1,2
The Pines closed for good late in 1998; the sources found do not say when the slope last ran. The next owner filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2002, and a series of fires from 2003 on has badly damaged the empty property, including fires in 2023 and 2024.2,3
TodayThe resort's remaining buildings stand abandoned and damaged by repeated fires. (2024)2
Sources for this history (3)
- 1Skikabbalah · Pines
- 2Abandoned Online · The Pines
- 3Hudson Valley Ruins · Hudson Valley Ruins: The Pines, South Fallsburg NY (Rob Yasinsac)
Photos
No photographs of The Pines we may republish yet
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Memories
What skiers remember of The Pines, in their own words.
Facts
Location
41.7278° N · 74.6191° W · New York
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 2all 2, in one list
Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain