Wildcat Mountain Ski Area – Gorham NH

City:
Gorham, NH

Site Type:
Parks and Recreation, Winter Sports

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Started:
1933

Quality of Information:
Very Good

Marked:
No

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

 

Wildcat Mountain Ski Area, near Jackson, NH, in the Mt. Washington Valley, is one of the best-known alpine skiing resorts in New England, with lifts from the base on NH Rt. 16 in Pinkham Notch 2,112 feet (644 m) up to the summit ridge. The area has 49 trails on 225 acres (91 ha), including the 2.75-mile (4.43 km) Polecat Trail — the longest ski trail in New Hampshire.” (Wiki)

 

July 17, 1933: “‘Inspected ski trail locations with Charlie Proctor. Started work on 1 1/2-mile ski trail climbing 2,000 vertical feet to Summit E with Ed LeBlanc in charge’….Ed LeBlanc was an able foreman being paid all of $45 per month to boss a crew of enrollees receiving Depression wages of $30 per month, plus found [sic] and medical care. During the summer of 1933 that unit, stationed at the Darby Field SubCamp of the Wild River C.C.C. Camp, cleared the Wildcat Ski Trail, the first major ski run to be swamped out in the Northeast by the Conservation Corps.” (Monahan)

Source notes

Robert S. Monahan, Eastern Ski Bulletin, March 7, 1958 Wikipedia

Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on February 18, 2016.

Location Info


542 Route 16
Gorham, NH 03581
Coos County

Coordinates: 44.25755, -71.253131

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