Bald Mountain Ski Area
Bald Mountain Ski Area is a small ski area in north central Idaho, located northwest of Pierce in Clearwater County. The area first opened in January 1960, with a cotton rope tow powered by a gasoline engine. Originally for employees of the Potlatch Corporation in the village of Headquarters, it opened to the public in the 1960s.
The summit elevation is above sea level, with a vertical drop of. The north-facing slopes are served by two surface lifts: a T-bar and a rope tow, and the main lodge and parking area are at mid-mountain. The area is open only on weekends and the average snowfall is. The T-bar made its debut in late January 1969, and the A-frame lodge was built in 1971.
This ski area is independent of the much larger Bald Mountain, the primary ski mountain at Sun Valley, a major ski resort in southern Idaho's Blaine County.
