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A view of Vernon from the top of the Red Tail Run at Mountain Creek. Great Gorge Resort was founded in McAfee, an unincorporated area of Vernon Township, in 1965 by three families (the Kurlanders, Fitzgeralds, and Bakers) who worked at the now-closed Snow Bowl Ski Resort in Milton, New Jersey.
David made the US training squad at 17, Drew was invited to the U.S. Ski Team at age 14 and Todd later raced on the U.S. Ski Team in the late 1980s to early 90s. David Schneider, their father, was the head of and created the alpine training program in the 1970s at Great Gorge and Vernon Valley ski areas before the opening of Hidden Valley.
Chair lift to the top of the alpine slide, Action Park, August 1994. The idea for the park began in 1976 when Eugene Mulvihill and his company, Great American Recreation, the owners of the recently combined Vernon Valley/Great Gorge ski area, wanted to find a way to generate revenue during the summer, so they opened a 2,700-foot-long (820 m) alpine slide down one of the steep ski trails. [8]
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Action Park was an amusement and water park located in Vernon Township, New Jersey, United States, on the grounds of the Vernon Valley/Great Gorge ski resort.The park consisted primarily of water-based attractions and originally opened to the public in 1978, under the ownership of Great American Recreation (GAR).
The Legends Resort & Country Club, often called simply Legends, was a hotel located on County Route 517 in Vernon Township in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States. In the 1970s, Hugh Hefner built the facility as The Great Gorge Playboy Club Hotel, and it officially opened in 1972. The Playboy Club was sold in 1982 to the Americana Hotel ...
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Wisp Ski Resort: McHenry: Maryland: 3,115 2,145 700 132 34 12 100 $49 September 28, 2019 [194] Campgaw Mountain: Mahwah: New Jersey: 726 450 276 23 12 5 45 $41 September 28, 2019 [195] Mountain Creek: Vernon: New Jersey: 1,490 450 1,040 167 46 9 65 $80 September 28, 2019 [196] Cockaigne Resort: Cherry Creek: New York: 2.022 1,592 430 100 11 3 ...