- City:
- Gorham, NH
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Winter Sports
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
- Started:
- 1933
- Completed:
- 1934
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
“Tuckerman Ravine is a glacial cirque sloping eastward on the southeast face of Mt. Washington, in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Although it draws hikers throughout the year, and skiers throughout the winter, it is best known for the many “spring skiers” who ascend it on foot and ski down the steep slope from early April into July.” Wiki
October 9, 1934: “…eight new ski trails, which will be open for the first time this season. Tuckerman Ravine Ski Trail is the major opus and showpiece of CCC activities carried on under the direction of the Federal and State forestry services.”
“The new Tuckerman Ravine trail is a wide ribbon from the headwall to the floor of the ravine that takes out the grief of that section…It was begun as a public works project and finished as a CCC job.” [Leich]
Source notes
Wikipedia
Winter Work: The CCC and New England Skiing Chronology By Jeff Leich, New England Ski Museum from an article in the Boston Evening Transcript, October 9, 1934
Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on February 12, 2016.
Contribute to this Site
We welcome contributions of additional information on any New Deal site.
Submit More Information or Photographs for this New Deal Site
Join the Conversation