A List of Colleges and Schools that Have or Had Ski Areas

joshua_segaljoshua_segal
edited January 2017 in NELSAP Forum Posts: 4,839
Clarkson 2-different areas, Seven Springs was one of them.
Colgate: Trainer Hill
Cornell Univ.: Tar Young Hill
Corning Community College
Darrow School (Berkshire Farm)
Delhi College: College Hill
Emma Willard School
Green Mt. College
Hoosac School (Operating)
Millbrook School
Paul Smith's
RPI (several locations on Campus)
St. Lawrence Univ. Snow Bowl
Skidmore
West Point - Original, Delafield Pond
West Point (Victor Constant Ski Slope, also: Silver Deposit Hill) (Operating)

Quite a few on the NELSAP site.  What can you add?

Summaries will include Northeast (NY, NJ, PA, New England)
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  • OldManOldMan
    Posts: 15
    Norwich University had two on the same hill:  Lybrand and one named for the school
  • khowleykhowley
    Posts: 101
    Franklin Pierce, Rindge, NH
  • NewEnglandSkier13NewEnglandSkier13
    Posts: 5,479
    Obviously Middlebury & Dartmouth
    - Sam
  • shprideshpride
    Posts: 352
    Vermont Tech's rope tow is still in use
  • obienickobienick
    Posts: 1,435
    Williams

  • Frers33Frers33
    Posts: 10
    Proctor Academy
  • joshua_segaljoshua_segal
    edited January 2017 Posts: 4,839
    Green Mountain College (Poultney - also operated an area in NY)
    Hartford School District
    Harwood Union High School
    Johnson State College
    Lyndon State College
    Middlebury College (operating)
    Norwich University (NELSAP lists one but "oldman" above suggested there were 2 areas)
    Putney School at Elm Lea Farm
    Rutland Jr. College
    St. Michael's College
    Sterling School
    Vermont Academy (edited as per NES13 below: operating)
    Vermont Tech (operating)
    Windham College

    What can you add?

    Summaries will include Northeast (NY, NJ, PA, New England)
  • NewEnglandSkier13NewEnglandSkier13
    Posts: 5,479
    The ski area at Vermont Academy is currently listed as operational.
    - Sam
  • IBRAKEFORTBARSIBRAKEFORTBARS
    Posts: 1,836
    East Hill in Camillus, NY is a rope tow  and Hall t-bar hill in the back yard of a local elementary school. 
  • Dirk109Dirk109
    edited January 2017 Posts: 36

    Colby College

  • joshua_segaljoshua_segal
    edited January 2017 Posts: 4,839
    IBRAKEFORTBARS said:

    East Hill in Camillus, NY is a rope tow  and Hall t-bar hill in the back yard of a local elementary school. 

    Is it privately owned or is it owned by the school and/or city? My notes indicate that it is owned and/or operated by the "Camillus Ski Association."
  • joshua_segaljoshua_segal
    edited January 2017 Posts: 4,839
    Indian Mountain School
    Kent School (As per ski_it comment below: operating)
    Renbrook School
    Uconn Storrs/Horse Barn Hill
    Westledge School
    Westminster School
    Wooster School

    Colby College
    Gould Academy
    Hebron Academy
    Kents Hill School 
    Oak Grove School
    Oxford Hills High School (Ben Barrows Hill)

    RI: None

    Summaries will include Northeast (NY, NJ, PA, New England)
    What can you add (or correct)?

  • khowleykhowley
    Posts: 101
    Eaglebook School, Deerfield, MA
  • KayakerKayaker
    Posts: 151
    Holy Cross in Worcester, MA.  I used to have pictures of the old rope tow towers on the old forum.  The area is presently dorms.
  • ski_itski_it
    edited January 2017 Posts: 4,667

    Norm Wight, NH

    Blackwater, NH  (edit - oops didn't see FRERS33 post)

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  • DrJeffDrJeff
    Posts: 1,329
    I can vouch for the various locations at RPI!

    I made tracks on various pitches around the campus during my 4 years there from '89 to '93 with some of the best turns I got there being in March of '93 when the "Storm of the Century" put down about 3 feet of powder!

    As for lift served at RPI, depending on the prevalence of ski addicted typically mechanical engineering students on campus at any given time, one would often see a make shift rope tow or two around the campus
  • joshua_segaljoshua_segal
    Posts: 4,839
    DrJeff said:

    I can vouch for the various locations at RPI!


    I made tracks on various pitches around the campus during my 4 years there from '89 to '93 with some of the best turns I got there being in March of '93 when the "Storm of the Century" put down about 3 feet of powder!

    As for lift served at RPI, depending on the prevalence of ski addicted typically mechanical engineering students on campus at any given time, one would often see a make shift rope tow or two around the campus
    In the years I attended RPI (1964-1973), I remember seeing people earning turns on the hill just above 8th St.  I had been told, (but my info request from RPI went unanswered) that at times in the 1950's there were rope tows both at the 8th street location mentioned above and on the hillside below W2SZ (RPI's ham radio station).
  • joshua_segaljoshua_segal
    Posts: 4,839
    ski_it said:

    Norm Wight, NH

    Blackwater, NH 

    Where is "Norm White"?  It doesn't appear on the NELSAP list.
  • flbskiflbski
    Posts: 122
    plastic ski slope at Bergen Community College, Paramus NJ (70's) I skied it.
  • ski_itski_it
    edited January 2017 Posts: 4,667
    joshua_segal said:

    ski_it said:

    Norm Wight, NH

    Blackwater, NH 

    Where is "Norm White"?  It doesn't appear on the NELSAP list.


    It is Wight, not Wright. I make the same mistake. It's near you!! It's at the Dublin School in Dublin, NH off 101.

    Which reminds me of another one. Cardigan Mountain School. Don't they have one or had ones? I think I read they had multiple sites and I believe I found pics on their site one that looked like recent on campus.

    Also Kent Hills, ME is operating.

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  • IBRAKEFORTBARSIBRAKEFORTBARS
    Posts: 1,836
    joshua_segal said:

    IBRAKEFORTBARS said:

    East Hill in Camillus, NY is a rope tow  and Hall t-bar hill in the back yard of a local elementary school. 

    Is it privately owned or is it owned by the school and/or city? My notes indicate that it is owned and/or operated by the "Camillus Ski Association."
    That may be true so perhaps it doesn't belong in the list as school/city owned and operated. It is in the school's backyard so one could say it's on or adjacent to school property. 
  • TreillyTreilly
    edited January 2017 Posts: 622
    Mt Ripley Michigan is owned by Michigan Technological University
  • joshua_segaljoshua_segal
    Posts: 4,839
    joshua_segal said:

    ski_it said:

    Norm Wight, NH

    Blackwater, NH 

    Where is "Norm White"?  It doesn't appear on the NELSAP list.


    It is Wight, not Wright. I make the same mistake. It's near you!! It's at the Dublin School in Dublin, NH off 101.

    Which reminds me of another one. Cardigan Mountain School. Don't they have one or had ones? I think I read they had multiple sites and I believe I found pics on their site one that looked like recent on campus.

    Also Kent Hills, ME is operating.

    OK.  When I get around to posting NH, Dublin School is listed.  They have had several sites including one that is currently operational with a pony lift.  I didn't know it as "Norm Wight".

    I too thought that the Cardigan School had its own hill, but it's not on NELSAP.

    Kent Hills was edited as per your comment.
  • joshua_segaljoshua_segal
    edited January 2017 Posts: 4,839
    Indian Mountain School
    Kent School 
    Renbrook School
    Uconn Storrs/Horse Barn Hill
    Westledge School
    Westminster School
    Wooster School

    Amherst College
    Bay Path Junior College
    Berkshire Christian Academy 
    Berkshire School
    Brooks School
    Cranwell Prep School
    Deerfield Academy
    Eagle Hill School
    Eaglebrook School Part 1
    Eaglebrook School Part 2
    Easton (Eaglebrook) Ski Area (operating)
    Fay School
    Holy Cross (submitted by kayaker)
    Monson Academy
    Mount Hermon School
    Mount Hermon School/Chapel Hill
    Nichols Junior College
    Pioneer Valley Academy
    Wayland High School/Buzzy's Bump
    Williams College

    Colby College
    Gould Academy
    Hebron Academy
    Kents Hill School (As per ski_it comment above: operating)
    Oak Grove School
    Oxford Hills High School (Ben Barrows Hill)

    Blackwater (Proctor Academy) (operating)
    Dartmouth Skiway (operating)
    Dublin School: Several sites, one still operating
    Franklin Pierce College
    Hampshire Country School
    Hawthorne College
    Holderness School (Updated as per riverc0il's comment below)
    Kimball Union Academy Slope/French's Ledges
    New Hampton School
    Norm Wight (See: Dublin School)
    Thomas Moore School
    Tilton School

    NJ: (From flbski who says he skied it in the 70s.)
    Bergen Community College (Paramus) plastic ski slope

    Alfred University (Happy Valley) (edited in based on aboninablesnowman posting below)
    Clarkson 2-different areas, Seven Springs was one of them.
    Colgate: Trainer Hill
    Cornell Univ.: Tar Young Hill
    Corning Community College
    Darrow School (Berkshire Farm)
    Delhi College: College Hill
    Emma Willard School
    Green Mt. College
    Hoosac School (Operating)
    Millbrook School
    Paul Smith's
    RPI (several locations on Campus)
    St. Lawrence Univ. Snow Bowl
    Skidmore
    West Point - Original, Delafield Pond
    West Point (Victor Constant Ski Slope, also: Silver Deposit Hill) (Operating)

    RI: None

    Green Mountain College (Poultney - also operated an area in NY)
    Hartford School District
    Harwood Union High School
    Johnson State College
    Lyndon State College
    Middlebury College (operating)
    Norwich University (NELSAP lists one but "oldman" above suggested there were 2 areas)
    Putney School at Elm Lea Farm
    Rutland Jr. College
    St. Michael's College
    Sterling School
    Vermont Academy (edited as per NES13 below: operating)
    Vermont Tech (operating)
    Windham College

    Additions? Corrections?

  • mapnutmapnut
    edited January 2017 Posts: 1,033
    This page on the Kents Hill School athletic facilities has a photo of their ski slope.(It slides by.) It says the rope tow is new. I checked the vertical of the hill, 200-210 feet. http://www.kentshill.org/page/athletics/facilities
    Never skied there but I had a summer job there painting. Great views from their hilltop.
  • ski_itski_it
    edited January 2017 Posts: 4,667
    mapnut said:

    This page on the Kents Hill School athletic facilities has erera photo of their ski slope.(It slides by.) It says the rope tow is new. I checked the vertical of the hill, 200-210 feet. http://www.kentshill.org/page/athletics/facilities

    Never skied there but I had a summer job there painting. Great views from their hilltop.
    See SJ1.0 for my trip reports on not skiing there. One of the car commercials this year I'd swear was filmed there.

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  • riverc0ilriverc0il
    Posts: 742
    Holderness, NH
    -Steve
    thesnowway.com
  • skipro77skipro77
    Posts: 91
    Cranwell School in Lenox MA had a short rope tow.  I remember using it as a practice slope a couple of times when I was on my high school ski team.
  • abdominalsnowmanabdominalsnowman
    Posts: 25
    Happy Valley, NY - Alfred University
  • IBRAKEFORTBARSIBRAKEFORTBARS
    Posts: 1,836
    Word Of Life Bible Institute up in the Adirondacks had and may still have a rope tow for student use.
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