Lost ski areaOregonCascade RangePacific Northwest
Tomahawk Ski Bowl
A small, low-elevation ski hill on Tomahawk Mountain near Rocky Point in Klamath County, whose slopes now carry a zipline course.
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Tomahawk Ski Bowl was a low-elevation ski hill near Rocky Point in Klamath County, along Highway 140 toward Medford; place-name records list it as a historical locale. A trail map on Skimap.org is dated 1958.1,2,4,5
Read the whole historyTodayCrater Lake Zipline runs tours from the top of Tomahawk Mountain, past the abandoned ski runs.3
Timeline
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Memories
Skied Tomahawk Ski Bowl, or worked there?
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Lost near Tomahawk Ski Bowl
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- Opened 1938 · 31.8 mi away · OregonA ski bowl just south of Crater Lake Lodge where clubs and a concessioner ran portable lifts and rope tows from 1938–39 into the late 1940s.
- 1958–1978 · 75.1 mi away · CaliforniaA ski area on Mount Shasta's south side, at the end of the Everitt Memorial Highway, that opened in 1958–59 and ended when an avalanche wrecked its chair in 1978.
- Years not yet collected · 137.2 mi away · CaliforniaHumboldt County's rope-tow ski hill on Horse Mountain, near Berry Summit on Highway 299, used from the late 1930s until it shut in the early 1980s.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 5 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
Tomahawk Ski Bowl was a low-elevation ski hill near Rocky Point in Klamath County, along Highway 140 toward Medford; place-name records list it as a historical locale. A trail map on Skimap.org is dated 1958. A former ski patroller recalls a Poma lift there and names the Divens family as its owners, and another skier, who grew up in Ashland, writes that it closed before they ever got there.1,2,4,5
After years of negotiations with the U.S. Forest Service, Darren and Jenifer Roe opened Crater Lake Zipline on the old ski hill in 2015; they call it the country's first zipline course on Forest Service land. Riders on one of its lines can see the abandoned ski runs.1,3
TodayCrater Lake Zipline runs tours from the top of Tomahawk Mountain, past the abandoned ski runs.3
Sources for this history (5)
- 11859 Oregon's Magazine · Klamath Basin Trip Planner (James Sinks, July 3, 2023)
- 2TopoQuest · Tomahawk Ski Bowl (historical), OR
- 3Crater Lake Zipline · Zipline Canopy Tour
- 4Skimap.org · Tomahawk Ski Bowl
- 5SkiTalk · The most unusual lift you've ridden, heard of, seen? (posts of December 10, 2017)
Photos
No photographs of Tomahawk Ski Bowl 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 Tomahawk Ski Bowl, in their own words.
Facts
Location
42.4469° N · 122.1057° W · Oregon · Cascade Range
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