Holly Mountain

Holly Mountain brought lift-served skiing to Lower Alloways Creek in southern New Jersey, an especially unexpected setting for a ski area amid the region’s flat farmland. According to the profile, the area operated from 1972 through 1986, offering six trails lit for night skiing. Its lift system included a double chairlift and a rope tow, providing a modest but complete ski experience in a place many would not associate with downhill skiing.

That contrast is central to Holly Mountain’s lasting character. Readers continue to find it remarkable that a lift-served ski area once operated in southern New Jersey, and recent aerial video has helped document the former site and preserve its memory. Though details of the skiing experience are limited, Holly Mountain stands as a distinctive example of the small, locally significant ski areas that once served communities well beyond the region’s traditional mountain resorts.