- Crotched Mountain Ski & Ride
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Crotched Mountain Ski & Ride Location Francestown/Bennington, New Hampshire, US Nearest city Manchester Coordinates 43°0′8.21″N 71°52′42.81″W / 43.0022806°N 71.8785583°W Top elevation 2066 ft (630 m) Base elevation 1050 ft (320 m) Skiable area 75 acres (300,000 m2) Runs 23[1] Lift system 4 chairs, 1 magic carpet Web site Crotched Mountain Ski & Ride Crotched Mountain Ski & Ride is a medium-sized ski area located on Crotched Mountain in Bennington and Francestown, New Hampshire. The ski area reopened in the 2003-2004 winter after having been closed for 13 years.
Crotched Mountain Ski & Ride
The original Crotched Mountain Ski Area operated on a different face of the mountain - the northeast side, entirely in Francestown. It opened in 1964. In 1970 a second area opened on the north side with the name Onset, later changed to Bobcat. Bobcat and the original Crotched Mountain merged in 1980 and operated jointly as Crotched Mountain. More than 100 adjacent condominium units were constructed in the late 1980s, creating a burden of debt that contributed to the demise of the resort in 1989.[2]
The resort was bought in 2002 by St. Louis-based Peak Resorts, a company that runs ski areas in the American Midwest. The company spent an estimated $9 million to build a new lodge, install new, state of the art snowmaking equipment and chairlifts, and to recut trails, and in 2003 reopened what had been the Onset/Bobcat side as Crotched Mountain Ski Area.[citation needed]
The portion of the mountain with the original Crotched Mountain ski area is now largely owned by the town of Francestown.
The mountain's snowmaking system claims the highest snow production capacity of any ski area in New England.[3]
Crotched Mountain Ski & Ride is approximately 30 minutes from Keene, 30 minutes from Concord and 1 hour from Boston.
References
- ^ "Trail map". Crotched Mountain. http://www.crotchedmountain.com/templates/cm07/images_2007/TRAILMAP_Large.jpg. Retrieved 2007-01-14.
- ^ "Onset/Bobcat Ski Area". New England Lost Ski Areas Project. http://www.nelsap.org/nh/onset.html. Retrieved November 15, 2010.
- ^ "Snowmaking information". Crotched Mountain. Archived from the original on 2006-09-01. http://web.archive.org/web/20060901102304/http://www.crotchedmountain.com/Snowmaking.html. Retrieved 2006-09-15.
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Ski areas and resorts in New Hampshire Ski area and location Arrowhead (Claremont) • Attitash (Bartlett) • Black Mountain (Jackson) • Bretton Woods (Bretton Woods) • Cannon Mountain (Franconia Notch) • Crotched Mountain (Bennington) • Dartmouth Skiway (Lyme) • Granite Gorge (Keene) • Gunstock (Gilford) • King Pine (Madison) • Loon Mountain (Lincoln) • McIntyre (Manchester) • Mount Prospect (Lancaster) • Mount Sunapee (Sunapee) • Pats Peak (Henniker) • Ragged Mountain (Danbury) • Tenney Mountain (Plymouth) • The Balsams (Dixville Notch) • Waterville Valley (Waterville Valley) • Whaleback (Enfield) • Wildcat (Jackson)
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