DCSki Historical Archive

Lost Ski Areas of the Mid-Atlantic

Preserving the places where generations learned, raced, worked, and skied.

Since 1997, DCSki has been piecing together the stories of 127 ski areas that once dotted the Mid-Atlantic. Some disappeared decades ago, leaving behind little more than an overgrown slope, rusting lift equipment, an old photograph, or memories passed down by the people who skied and worked there.

As the years pass, those memories become increasingly precious. With help from readers, former employees, and local residents, DCSki is preserving photographs, stories, and forgotten details while there are still people who remember them — keeping a small but important part of the region’s skiing history from fading away.

Archival photographs from DCSki Lost Ski Areas
A few places to explore

From the Archive

A rotating selection of profiles with richer historical descriptions.

Pocono Pines, PA

Pocono Lake Preserve

Near Pocono Pines, Pennsylvania, the cleared slopes of Pocono Lake Preserve were long mistaken for a small private ski area, complete with a visible towline and gentle trail corridors. Local history instead identifies them as land cleared in the 1960s for an abandoned Lake Naomi housing development; the tract is now State Game Lands.

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Philipsburg, PA

Black Moshannon State Park

Near Philipsburg and Penn State, Black Moshannon’s modest ski area offered inexpensive skiing on two surface lifts and quiet, beginner-friendly slopes. The operation reportedly lasted about 15 years before closing, but its lodge survives as a park rental cabin and the old runs remain mowed hiking trails.

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Mount Pocono, PA

Pocono Manor Ski Area

Near Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, Pocono Manor was an “upside down” ski area beside a grand historic hotel, with summit-based beginner slopes, a top-to-bottom J-bar or T-bar, snowmaking, and night skiing. Families remember it as a welcoming learning hill; after skiing ended, part of the area became a snow-tubing slope.

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Johnstown, PA

Ski Area in Johnstown, Pennsylvania

Located near the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, this small former ski hill had two or three short slopes and a lift that readers variously recall as a rope tow, bar tow, or double chair. Though closed by the 2000s, its slopes remained popular for hike-up skiing, snowboarding, biking, and conditioning.

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Approximate locations. Exact coordinates are unknown for many former ski areas. DCSki stores an approximate location based on the city or community associated with each profile; markers should not be interpreted as the precise former ski-area site.
127 approximate locations plotted.
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Maryland

12 areas

Pennsylvania

77 areas

New Jersey

11 areas

Virginia

8 areas

West Virginia

13 areas

North Carolina

6 areas
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For lost ski areas in New England, DCSki also recommends the independent New England Lost Ski Areas Project (NELSAP).

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