Mount Spokane Ski and Snowboard Park


Mount Spokane Ski and Snowboard Park is a ski resort in the western United States, located inside Mount Spokane State Park in Spokane County, Washington, about northeast of Spokane via State Route 206. The base elevation is at with the peak at, yielding a vertical drop of. Its slopes are primarily east-facing, and are served by six chairlifts.

History

Additional land at Mount Spokane was obtained due to the lead efforts of Cheney Cowles, whose father ran the Cowles Publishing Company. Cowles was the managing editor of the Spokane Daily Chronicle and was an original member of the Spokane Ski Club; he was killed in military plane crash in Alabama during
The Vista House at the summit was constructed in 1933, and built by local Washington contractor E.O. Fieldstad – the first of five fire lookouts on the mountain, some of which were constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps Mount Spokane hosted the Northwest ski championships in Future Olympic gold medalist Gretchen Fraser, then 18, won the
The ski area was originally on the west side of the mountain with rope tows and operated the world's first double chairlift converted from a mine tramway from with a lodge built by the CCC the late fire in the nearly-completed lodge addition in began the move to the east day lodge was built by the state on the east side and a Riblet double chair was installed in the summer added five years and a third The fourth chair was added a few years later and the fifth Night skiing on Mount Spokane began in
The majority owner of the Mount Spokane Chairlift, Inc. was founder Al E. Mettler who sold his interest in 1970 to Six years later, Caley filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and the ski area assets were sold to a creditor, Riblet Tramway Company of Spokane. Mettler returned in March 1976, as interim general manager for a few months, relieved by Keith Petrie, previously at Anthony Lakes in eastern Oregon. Sam Wormington took over in 1977, moving southwest to Spokane from nearby in