Rope Tow Run by Huntingdon Valley Ski Club

Near Pipersville, just north of New Hope and outside Philadelphia, the Huntingdon Valley Ski Club maintained a small private ski hill with a rope tow. It was a modest suburban operation rather than a conventional resort, but it gave club members a place to ski close to home. The profile offers few details about its operating history, while family recollections place the hill’s construction and use in the 1970s.

Readers remember helping prepare the property, including building a parking lot, and recall a small shack or chalet on the slope beside the rope tow. Children ran up and down the hill as the club developed its own ski area, and members captured the setting and its activities on home movies. Those films were later transferred to DVD, preserving glimpses of the hill, facilities, and club community. Although the site’s later history is not documented here, the recollections portray a locally built ski project whose significance lay in the shared effort as much as in the skiing itself.