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17 ft (5.2 m) annual. Website. snowriver.com. Snow River Mountain Resort is located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in Wakefield Township, Gogebic County. Indianhead Mountain is in an area called "Big Snow Country", so named because of the annual 200-inch (5.1 m) average snowfall, courtesy of the lake effect [1] from Lake Superior.
History. Caberfae Peaks' official opening was in January, 1938, making it one of the oldest ski resorts in the US. The resort opened with a lodge built by the Civilian Conservation Corps and one ski trail named "Number One". The first rope tow was powered by a Ford Model A car engine. Over the next five years, a dozen more trails were cleared ...
Mount Brighton. Mt. Brighton is a ski and snowboard area in Brighton, Michigan, that opened in 1961. As no hills large enough for commercial skiing or snowboarding exist naturally in Brighton, Mt. Brighton's slopes are man-made and reach a maximum height of 230 vertical feet. Contrary to urban legend, Mt. Brighton was never a landfill.
When Timber Ridge opened in 1961, the ski area had only one lift. This lift was a tow rope that was powered by a 1949 Chevy. The cost to use this tow rope at this time was 50 cents. In 1967 the lift cost increased to $3.00 during the week and $3.50 on the weekends. The cost to rent skis at that time was $4.00.Snowboards were not around at this ...
Mont Ripley Ski Area. Mont Ripley Ski Area (Often shortened to Mont Ripley, or simply Ripley) is a ski hill located in Franklin Township, Houghton County, in Michigan 's Upper Peninsula. The site is just outside the cities of Hancock and Houghton. It is owned by Michigan Technological University. It was founded in the early 1900s by Fred Pabst ...
The Boyne Mountain Resort was originally co-developed by Everett Kircher, Jim Christianson and John Norton. The group purchased the site for $1 in 1948 from Michigan Senator William Pierson and opened it as a ski resort in 1949. [4] The founders acquired the first chairlift ever built (from Sun Valley, Idaho) and moved it to Boyne Mountain ...
Cross-country ski and snowshoe rentals run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays at St. Patrick’s. Season trail passes there cost $20 per adult and $15 per youth.
Big Powderhorn Mountain is a 250-acre (1.0 km 2) ski resort located in Gogebic County in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, within Bessemer Township and Ironwood Township (between the cities of Bessemer and Ironwood).