Lost Ski Areas of Washington


 

 
 
 
 

 

American River Ski Bowl
Big Four Ski Area
Blewett Pass
Cayuse Pass
Chewelah Peak
Chinook Pass
Cle Elum Ski Hill
Corral Pass Road
Darrington
Deer Park
Eastern Slopes
Easton Local
Entiat Ski
Flapjack Lake
Foggy Dew
Gold Hills
Holiday Hills
Huskey Chalet
Ione Ski Area
Keechelus Inn
Kiwanis Ski Hill
Lake Twenty-Two
Lake Wenatchee
Maloney Mountain
Mount Joy 
Mt Pilchuck Ski Club
Mt. Pilchuck
Mt. St. Helens
Okanogan Ski Area
Paradise Ski Area
Robinson Canyon
Rose Springs
Rustic Inn
Salmon La Sac
Salmon Meadows
Satus Pass
Scenic Ski Area
Selah Gap
Silver Dollar Ski Bowl
Silver Springs
Snoqualmie Mountaineers
Snoqualmie Ski Bowl
Squilchuck Ski Bowl
Sunset Lodge 
Swauk
Tipsoo Ski Area
Tyle
Wheeler Hill
Yodelin

Total lost count = 48
 
 
 



Information Sources
Last update - 11/2/2007


The Olympian Hill, Milwaukee Ski Bowl 1946


 



 
 
 
 
 

I am currently moving this site to a new format
that I hope to have completed soon (as time
allows me).  I have much more info to add which
will come with the new revamped site.

WA USDA Winter Use Report for 1947-48
American Ski Annual Pacific NW Articles 

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Many of the early ski areas in the 1920s - 1940s were setup by parks departments, forest service or ski clubs and were simply runs cut through the trees. Most had services such as Warming Hut, Food or 
Equipment Rentals available, but not all had rope tows. By the 1950s most areas now had tows and some had lifts either surface or chair. 

Mt Baker was the first in WA. with a lift other then a rope tow called the "Ski Escalator" in 1935. Milwaukee Ski Bowl had the first high-capacity lift called the "Talley-Ho Skiboggan" that would haul 
1440 people per hr in sleds that could hold from 16 to over 30 people per sled.   The latest ski area to fall into the "lost" catagory is the Mountaineers Snoqualmie facility in 2002. 


I try to be as accurate as possible so if you find any 
information to be inaccurate, please let me know and 
I will correct. Any new information is always appreciated! 


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