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James Park - Evanston, IL, 1973 - 1982

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PLANNED BUT NEVER OPENED

Mt. Hoy - Warrenville, IL, NEVER OPENED

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Salem Township Landfill - Salem, MI, NEVER OPENED

• For more information: https://mwlsap.org/michigan/mi.htm#salemtrash
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Brookings Ski Hill, Brookings, SD, NEVER OPENED

• For more information: https://mwlsap.org/southdakota/sd.htm#brookings
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Mt. Trashmore, Cedar Rapids, IA - NEVER OPENED

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Michigan Sate University, Lansing MI - NEVER OPENED

• 'Build a Mountain' - MSU Ski Slope of Junk Proposed - Lansing State Journal (Lansing, Michigan) · Sun, Jan 21, 1973
  
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Middle Rouge Parkway, Detroit, MI - NEVER OPENED

• For more information: https://mwlsap.org/michigan/mi.htm#middlerougeparkway

Superior Land, Marquette, MI - NEVER OPENED

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WHAT ABOUT MT. BRIGHTON, BRIGHTON, MI?

The movie was wrong!  Most of us have seen the movie Aspen Extreme whereTJ and Dexter discuss how Mt. Brighton was built on a garbage dump.  Actually, Mt. Brighton was built on excess dirt from the construction of local highways and not on garbage.

Riverview Highlands

James Park and Mt. Hoy





Crystal Ridge, Franklin, WI

Salem Township Landfill

Brookings Ski Hill, Brookings, SD

 Mt. Trashmore, Cedar Rapids, IA 

 

 

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MIDWEST SKI HILLS BUILT ON GARBAGE

Riverview Highlands - Riverview, MI, near Detroit, 1981 - 1997

James Park - Evanston, IL, 1973 - 1982

Crystal Ridge - Franklin, WI , 1987 - present

The movie was wrong!  Most of us have seen the movie Aspen Extreme where TJ and Dexter discuss how Mt. Brighton was built on a garbage dump.  Actually, Mt. Brighton was built on excess dirt from the construction of local highways and not on garbage.