A few years ago, Lee Wade Muehlhof, Deputy National Press Officer at the American Forest Service, a map of all skiing areas in the United States that operates under USFs:
Which was great, given the expiry of this document. But I seek to understand any ski areas that I sat on USFs will not be very simple. Along with the map, MueHLHOF send a list in detailing the USFs. The problem was that the map, on 2013, and the list, on 2022, did not match:
Three skiing areas appeared on the map, but not on the list: sunrise, Arizona (which, according to resort officials, is not on USFs at all); Hummod, California; Squaw Valley, California (now part of Palisades Tahoe)
There were no three skiing areas that appeared on the map menu: Hiawatha, on the Supreme Peninsula in Michigan (also known as Chatham Ski Hill); Beartooth basin, Summer Ski area only in Wyoming; Meadowlark, Wyoming.
Many ski areas that have not worked for many years have appeared on the map or menu: Elk Ridge, Arizona; Big Air/Green Valley, California; Kratka Ridge, California; Mount Hi North, California; Mountain will provide California; Spout Springs, Oregon. I knew the fate of some of these, but Kratka did not weave the elevators for two decades – why was he still on the list?
There are many incorrectly skiing areas on the map: Cedar Pass, California is more than 600 miles south of its actual title; Elk Ridge, Arizona was placed in Nevada. ASPEN ski spaces are all diluted for their actual location. I'm sure there are other mistakes, but the general topic is “Don't use this instead of your GPS.”
I did not move in these contradictions when I received these documents in August 2022. But with the development of Tracker 5001 to USASportskiaing Masterchart So that I could put all the things that I am tired of searching for in one place, I decided that the time has come to clarity around the ski areas on forest service land. I also wanted a quick reference guide to be the large ski areas on it no On USFs, so that we can analyze what this means to quickly change those properties against their peers who hired the government.
I also wanted to understand: How much skiing on ice in USFs skiing areas? in Speech 2017 In the Agency of the National Skiping Zones Association, Tom Tedwell, the 122 -skiing areas of the agency, said about “about 60 percent of the total slope ski capacity in the United States”, where 23 million increasing visits are added to “nearly half of all the visits of the skating worldwide.”
But these numbers do not meet for me: I count 116 active skiing areas On USFs and 12 inactive. While these areas that combine 150,340 acres represent 63 per cent of the skiing terrain in America, each mountain with a USFS rental contract works 100 percent on USFs. Only a “very small space” by the Olympic Valley, which has an area of ​​approximately 3000 acres of Palisades Tahoe on public land, according to the resort's representative. and, By NSAA numbersAmerica recorded 54.7 million skating visits to the 2016-17-Sesay 23 million TidWell 42 percent of this largest number.
This is also the time to create a basic list of USFs ski Up to 3400 Forest service staff, and can include Up to 7000 others In the coming months (before the demobilization of the workers, the agency, which is part of the US Department of Agriculture, Running Working power of 35,000). Usfs performs many things, including, in a prominent way, fighting seasonal forest fires, but it will be interesting to see how the main plans of the skiing area and project approvals (or not) are going with the efforts made by government efficiency. I will not analyze the impact of this government, which is deeply reduced so far, but the data collected below will work as a nice basis once you get more clarity.
So let's take a look at the skiing areas on USFS, which are not inserted, which are inserted as an active skiing areas in USFS although they were asleep for years, and how much ski scene represented by this group:
