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LOST
AREAS
Americana
+ - still open as
Mountain
Top at Grand Geneva, was also
called Indian Knob, Playboy Club, and Hotdog
Mountain
- Playboy Club became Americana in
1980
Baldy
Mountain Ski Hill (Old
Baldy)
- Cornell, WI - northwest Wisconsin
- adjacent to the Chippewa County Forest, a few miles
west of Cornell
- v: 150 ft. 1 rope tow
- Google
Maps / Google
Earth
45.207497755530724, -91.27312637192851
- Lost Wisconsin Ski Areas Facebook
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2
Badlands
Baird's
Creek
+ - see Moon
Valley, still open as
Triangle
Sports Area
Bay
View Hill
* see Williams
Bay Ski Hill
Bear
Valley
* (see Pink
Panther)
Big
Bearskin Lake Ski Hill
- Oneida County, Rhinelander /
Tomahawk , WI - north central Wisconsin - On Big Bearskin
Lake 20 miles west of Rhinelander, and 20 miles north of
Tomahawk - 2 to 3 miles north of Goodnow on old
51
- o: 1945
- upside
down (lodge at the
top)
- Google
Maps / Google
Earth (Bearskin Lake)
45.73383865844644, -89.67992937155978
- advertisment
- The Rhinelander Daily News, Feb 25, 1946
- Winter
Activites To Start Sunday at Bearskin
Hill - The Rhinelander
Daily News, Dec 18, 1947
- Big
Bearskin Ski Facilities Open
- The Rhinelander Daily News, Dec 30, 1948
- Lost
Wisconsin Ski Areas Facebook Page
Big
Dipper Ski Hill
* - see
Echo
Valley
Birch
Haven (originally called
Suicide Hill)
- Baraboo, WI - south central
Wisconsin - Midway between Sauk City and Baraboo, 1 and
1/2 miles west of Badger Ordnance Plant on County C, two
miles west of Bluffview, E 10389 County Rd. C
- v: 278 ft. o: 1954
- Google
Maps / Google
Earth
43.35721553820846, -89.80622165921609
Please email - mark@mwlsap.org - if you know a more
precise location.
- Lost Wisconsin Ski Areas Facebook
Page (Birch Haven) 1
2
3
4
5
6
- Skiers
and Snowboarders of the Midwest Facebook
Group
- skimap.org
Birch
Park (also called Eight
Flags of Birch Park)
Birchwood
Valley
- Sparta, WI - west central
Wisconsin - 4 1/2 miles north on county B on
Monroe
County Forest-Lafayette
land
- c: 1976
- Google
Maps / Google
Earth
44.0076244248097, -90.79491926463723
- "Explorer Scouts, under the
direction of Rich Helm, constructed, maintained and
operated the project over the past year, but say they
can't continue." - The
La Crosse Tribune (La Crosse, Wisconsin) · Sun, Apr
29, 1973
- Explorers,
Girl Scounts Attend Winter
Activity - The La Crosse
Tribune (La Crosse, Wisconsin) · Thu, Jan 20,
1972
- Board
Votes to Prohibit Commercial Game
Farms - The La Crosse
Tribune (La Crosse, Wisconsin) · Thu, Sep 6, 1973
·
- Monroe
County Accepts $228 Million
Valuation - The La Crosse
Tribune (La Crosse, Wisconsin) · Thu, Oct 4, 1973
- Monroe
County OKs Funds To Finish Dam
- LaCrosse Tribune, Oct. 9, 1976
Buffalo
Valley Inc.
* became Hiawatha
Hills
Bull
Run Ski Area
Calumet
County Park (previously
called Calumet Hills, also Fox
Valley Ski Club)
Chain
O' Lakes
Chanticleer
Inn
Coon's
Hill
Currie
Park
Deepwood
(may be reopening as Woodwind
Park)
- Wheeler, WI - west central
Wiscconsin
- v: 293 o: 1951
- In 1978 (Skalka):
8 rope tows, 2 T-bars
- Google
Maps / Google
Earth
45.061563647331525, -91.80137204759671
- Lost Wisconsin Ski Areas Facebook
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
- Ski
Report - Stevens Point
Journal (Stevens Point, Wisconsin) · Thu, Feb 24,
1972
- skimap.org
Deer
Trail
Delafield
Lodge*
(see Velkommen)
Dell
View Hotel
(Williamson's Dell View Hotel)
- Lake Delton / Wisconsin Dells, WI
- central wWisconsin
- 2 rope tows and a ski instructor
at hotel on Lake Delton
- Google
Maps / Google
Earth
43.60633255078956, -89.77773411841439
On Lake Delton
Please email - mark@mwlsap.org - if you know a more
precise location.
- Ad in Central
Skiland, Dec. 1966, page 40
- Milwaukee
Road Will Run Package Jaunts
- Portage Daily Register (Portage, Wisconsin) · Thu,
Dec 9, 1965
- From The
Winter Sports Guide 1966-1967
Milwaukee road Railroad
- Dells
Year-Around Fun Spot -
Wisconsin Dells Events (Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin)
· Thu, Jan 22, 1970
- Mall
Merchants To Offer Winter Weekend
Vacation - The Sheboygan
Press (Sheboygan, Wisconsin) · Thu, Jun 18,
1970
Devil's
Lake - Windy City Ski Club
* - see Windy
City Hill
Dretzka
Park
Dyracuse
Mound
Eagle
Bluff Ski Area
Eagle
or Eagle
Springs
- Eagle, WI, Waukesha County -
southeast Wisconsin
- Google
Maps / Google
Earth
42.85319071208946, -88.46010998070847
"About the ski hill at Eagle: It sat on the land where
the Eagle Springs Golf Course is now, off of Cty. Hwy Lo.
It looks like the only way they could've had 100 vertical
feet was with a south-facing slope. The rail line ran
right next to it. " message from Mick Shoup
??? "possibly on the Orin Benson property N of Eagle"
from the Waukesha County Historical Society & Museum
via email)
- Wisconsin
Plans Festive Winter Sports
Program - Chicago Tribune
(Chicago, Illinois) · Wed, Jan 15, 1941
- Sports
in the Snow - Waukesha
Daily Freeman (Waukesha, Wisconsin) · Fri, Jan 3,
1947
- Relax
in Waukesh County, 1948
tourist brochure - Thank you to the Waukesha County
Historical Society & Museum
- Waukesha
Daily Freeman (Waukesha, Wisconsin), Sat, Jan 24,
1948 ·
- Lost Wisconsin Ski Areas Facebook
Page: Two
ski hills near Eagle, WI
- List
Ski Areas In County - The
Oconomowoc Enterprise (Oconomowoc, Wisconsin) · Thu,
Jan 20,1966
Eau
Claire Winter Sports Club Ski
Hill *
- see Pinehurst
Echo
Valley (also called Big
Dipper Ski Hill)
- White Lake, WI - Echo Valley
Resort - northeast Wisconsin - 7 mi. W of Mountain,
WI
- v: 70 ft. o: 1969 c:
1977
- on maps: 1969;
1971;
1973;
1977
- advertisement
- Green Bay Press Gazette, Dec. 7, 1969
- Google
Maps / Google
Earth
45.152794970135105, -88.62397655592368
- Skiers and Snowboarders of the
Midwest Facebook Group - Explored
one of the smaller lost Wisconsin ski
areas.
- Lost Wisconsin Ski Areas Facebook
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2
- 54
Wisconsin Ski hills 'Better Than
Ever' - Green Bay
Press-Gazette (Green Bay, Wisconsin) · Sun, Dec 3,
1972
- State
downhill ski areas listed -
The Daily Tribune (Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin) ·
Sat, Nov 8, 1975
Eight
Flags of Birch Park*
- see Birch
Park
Elpa
Lodge Slopes,
- Slinger, southeast Wisconsin -
7
mi. SW of Slinger
- Google
Maps / Google
Earth ??
location of Slinger
43.334128958557365, -88.2757852204042
Holy Hill / Heiliger
Huegel is in this
loctaion
Please email - mark@mwlsap.org - if you know a the
location.
- 1951-52
Directory Winter Sports
Playgrounds, Chicago and
North Western Railroad
- Chicagoland
Boasts Many Ski Areas -
Chicago Tribune, Sun, Feb 3, 1952
- Outdoor
Sports in full Swing in State With Snow, Cold
Weather - The Oshkosh
Northwestern, Dec. 18, 1954
- Ski
Anywhere in Wisconsin ;Choice Includes 50
Resorts - The Daily Tribune
(Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin) · 3 Jan
1958
Engelwood
Fawn
Lake Lodge
Ferry
Hill Winter Sports Area
- Lodi, WI (Okee) - south central
Wisconsin - south of the Merrimac ferry, and two miles
west of Okee off of Highway 113 and County V, near
Gibralter Rock
- o: 1956
- Google
Maps / Google
Earth ???
43.35667529337323, -89.61170554743344
Please email - mark@mwlsap.org - if you know a more
precise location.
- Lost
Wisconsin Ski Areas Facebook Page
The
Flats - The Kiwanis Club
of Oconto Falls
Forest
Lake Ski Bowl
- Campbellsport, WI - southeast
Wisconsin, on Cranberry Lake (?), 5 mi from junction of
45 and 67, county trunk SS at the Sheboyban-Fond du Lac
county line; Kettle Moraine North Unit
- v: 175 ft. o: Jan. 19,
1941
- Google
Maps / Google
Earth
43.60802364958532, -88.16743326371048
(Forest Lake)
- Ski
Bowl In K-M Area Is Going Strong
- The Sheboygan Press (Sheboygan, Wisconsin) · Wed,
Jan 22, 1941
- Civilian
Defense Ski Corps Formed In The Kettle
Moraine - The Sheboygan
Press · 24 Jan 1942
- Southern
Wisconsin Gains Fame As Year Round Resort Area; Winter
Sports Boom - Janesville
Daily Gazette, Jan 9, 1948
Fox
Valley Ski Club * -
see Calumet
County Park
??
Fox
Valley Ski Center
* (see Fun
Valley Ski Area)
Fun
Valley Ski Area
(?Fox Valley Ski Center?)
Frolic
Valley
Gateway
Lodge -
NOT the same as King's
Gateway
Glenwood
City 57 Hills Ski Area
* - see Ski
Glen
Greenbush
Ski Hill
- Campbellsport, WI (Kettle Moraine
North Unit) - southeastern Wisconsin - east
facing
- v: 125 ft; 1940s -
1979
- upside
down - parking at top,
lodge at the bottom
- In 1978 (Skalka):
2 rope tows
- Google
Maps / Google
Earth
43.74618283689311, -88.1006569359049
- Ski
Tow, Wide Trails, Please
Enthusiasts- Wisconsin
State Journal (Madison, Wisconsin) · Sun, Feb 11,
1951 - pictures
- Calumet,
Greenbush Ski Hills - The
Sheboygan Press (Sheboygan, Wisconsin) · Tue, Jan 7,
1958
- Lost
Ski Areas of Wisconsin Facebook Page
- SKI
Magazine - Jan. 1979
(link)
- Skiers
and Snowboarders of the Midwest Facebook
Group
- skimap.org
Hagen-Miner
+ probably the same as Mt.
Hardscrabble
- Rice Lake, WI
- Rice
Lake Winter Sports Firm Forms
- The Daily Telegram (Eau Claire, Wisconsin) · Tue,
Jul 3, 1951
- Ski
Reports - Star Tribune
(Minneapolis, Minnesota) · Fri, Feb 8, 1952
- Area
Skiing Rated Good - The
Daily Tribune (Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin) · Fri,
Jan 30, 1953
- Wisconsin
Lost Ski Areas Facebook Page
- Mt Hardscrabble - mentions owner Cap Hagen
Hardscrabble
Harrison
Hills (later called Silver
Valley)
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