SOUTH DAKOTA 4 lost areas MWLSAP Homepage Any information or pictures on the lost ski areas of South Dakota would be greatly appreciated. Please e-mail: mark@mwlsap.org | lost | working on | never opened | still open |

LOST AREAS Deer Mountain Resort (also: Mystic Miner Ski Resort at Deer Mountain, Ski Mystic Deer Mountain) Lead, SD - west central South Dakota Plans to reopen as a private, members only, resort. They have finished refurbishing one of the chairlifts, but I can find no news that there was actual lift-served skiing during the 2023-2034 season. If anyone has further information please contact mark@mwlsap.org v: 620 ft. o: 1965 c: 2017, set to reopen in 2023 Google Maps / Google Earth 44.308211134008054, -103.81823351250497 Website 2024 Videos: Deer Mountain 360 Degree tour - 2017 (4:04) The finest skiing and riding in the Black Hills! Pristine, Uncrowded FAMILY FUN! - 2012 (1:01) South Dakota's Ski, Snowmobile Areas Offer A Variety of Facilities, Activities - Argus-Leader (Sioux Falls, South Dakota), Nov 10, 1974 South Dakota's Deer Mountain Ski Resort Plans To Reopen Next Year (2022) - snocountry.com July, 2021 The Ski Lift is Running at Deer Mountain - YouTube video South Dakota Ski Areas - skibum.com South Dakota Ski Area Set to Reopen as a Private Luxury Ski Community - Snowbrains.com Skiers and Snowboarders of the Midwest Facebook Page skimap.org Great Bear Ski Valley+ - still open as Great Bear Recreation Area State 'Flatlands' Boast 3 Developing Ski Areas - Argus-Leader (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) · Sun, Dec 19, 1971 Holiday Hill Yankton, SD - southeast South Dakota (6 miles west on Lewis and Clark Lake north shore) v: 260 ft., o: 1963 - to at least 1981 Google Maps / Google Earth 42.86276403694318, -97.53515215095732 Yankton Group Prays for Snow - Argus Leader, Jan. 6, 1963 SKI Guide (con't from p.2), Minneapolis Tribune, Nov. 15, 1964 Avid Skiers Pleased With New Snowfall - The Daily Republic (Mitchell, South Dakota) · Sat, Jan 7, 1967 1964 map Inkpa Du Ta Ski Area Ortonville, MN / Big Stone City, SD - northeast South Dakota (on shores of Big Stone Lake, northside of Big Stone City, within city limits) v: 150 ft. o:1969 Google Maps / Google Earth 45.30585769529787, -96.46951510911978 State 'Flatlands' Boast 3 Developing Ski Areas - Argus-Leader (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) · Sun, Dec 19, 1971 SKI Magazine, Feb. 1978 (link) South Dakota's Ski, Snowmobile Areas Offer A Variety of Facilities, Activities - Argus-Leader (Sioux Falls, South Dakota), Nov 10, 1974 Ski slopes on the prairie - Argus-Leader (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) · Sun, Dec 13, 1981 skimap.org La Coteau Sisseton, SD - northeast South Dakota (wooded valley west of Sisseton on land leased from the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux tribe), Sisseton Recreation Board v: 110 ft., closed by 1981 (at least 1967-1975) Google Maps / Google Earth ??? 45.66292327175874, -97.04839116907658 (town of Sisseton) Please email - mark@mwlsap.org - if you know a more precise location. Avid Skiers Pleased With New Snowfall - The Daily Republic (Mitchell, South Dakota) · Sat, Jan 7, 1967 State 'Flatlands' Boast 3 Developing Ski Areas - Argus-Leader (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) · Sun, Dec 19, 1971 Everyone's just waiting for the snow! - Deadwood Pioneer Times, Dec. 2, 1972, p. 1 Ski Area Guide, SKIING Magazine, Sept. 1969, pp. 162-164 South Dakota's Ski, Snowmobile Areas Offer A Variety of Facilities, Activities - Argus-Leader (Sioux Falls, South Dakota), Nov 10, 1974 MWLSAP Homepage WORKING ON  location of La Coteau   PLANNED BUT NEVER DEVELOPED Brookings Ski Hill - NEVER OPENED Brookings, SD Brookings wants to make ski hill out of garbage - Rapid City Journal (Rapid City, South Dakota) · Sun, May 2, 1982   STILL OPEN (SD) Great Bear Recreation Park (formerly Great Bear Ski Valley) - STILL OPEN website SKI Magazine, Feb. 1977 (link) skimap.org Terry Peak Ski Area - STILL OPEN website first chairlift in South Dakota skimap.org ? Ski Hill at Wessington Springs City Park / Winter Park - STILL OPEN MAINLY SLEDDING Wessington Springs, SD website skimap.org (0 maps) MWLSAP Homepage

1964 Minneapolis Tribune, Dec. 13, 1964, p. 62

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