Lost ski areaNew HampshireWhite MountainsNortheast
Tyrol
Ran 1963–1981. A ski area in Jackson, in the Mount Washington Valley, that ran from the 1960s until 1981 with a double chair, a T-bar and a Poma.
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Tyrol stood in Jackson, a few kilometres from Black Mountain, and started with a T-bar and a Poma. NELSAP's table dates its first season to 1963–64, while the thesis passage it quotes says 1967–68; a 1966 guidebook already listed it with 700 feet of vertical.1,2,3
Read the whole historyTodayThe land is private, most trails have grown in and the base lodge is a home. (1999)1,3
Timeline
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Memories
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Lost near Tyrol
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- Years not yet collected · 5.1 mi away · New HampshireRussell's Slope, run by Russell's Inn in Kearsarge, was skied on foot in the 1930s and had a rope tow from the late 1940s.
- 1972–1982 · 13.4 mi away · MaineA ski resort on Adams Mountain in Stoneham, Maine, with three chairlifts, open from 1972 to 1982 apart from one idle winter.
- 1972–1982 · 18.8 mi away · MaineA one-T-bar ski area on Burnt Meadow Mountain in Brownfield, built by a local nonprofit and later run as Zodiac Skiway, open from 1972 to about 1982.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 3 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
Tyrol stood in Jackson, a few kilometres from Black Mountain, and started with a T-bar and a Poma. NELSAP's table dates its first season to 1963–64, while the thesis passage it quotes says 1967–68; a 1966 guidebook already listed it with 700 feet of vertical. Around 1970 a new double chair lowered the bottom and brought the drop to about 1,000 feet. By 1973 it had three lifts, 13 trails and a base at 1,800 feet, and by 1977–78 about 42 acres of trails.1,2,3
Its owners, Tim and John Bailey, pointed to the long way in from the highway and a steep access road. With no reliable water for snowmaking, it opened only a few days in the snowless gas-crisis winter of 1973–74. In the last winter, 1980–81, only the Poma ran, and debts closed the area for good in 1981.1,3
TodayThe land is private, most trails have grown in and the base lodge is a home. (1999)1,3
Timeline
- 1963Tyrol opens with a T-bar and a Poma, per NELSAP's table1
- 1967Opening winter given in the thesis passage NELSAP quotes1,3
- c. 1970New double chair raises the vertical to 971 feet1
- 1973Three lifts and 13 trails; snowless winter allows only a few days1,3
- 1980Final winter, 1980–81, runs the Poma only1
- 1981Tyrol closes for good1,3
Sources for this history (3)
- 1New England Lost Ski Areas Project · Tyrol Ski Area
- 2Skimap.org · Tyrol Ski Area
- 3New England Lost Ski Areas Project · Tyrol Ski Area (earlier version of the page)
Photos
No photographs of Tyrol we may republish yet
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Memories
What skiers remember of Tyrol, in their own words.
Facts
Location
44.1389° N · 71.1542° W · New Hampshire · White Mountains
OpenSkiMap lists it as abandoned.
Years operated
1963–1981
Closed after the 1981 season. 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