Lonesome Pine Trails: Fort Kent's non-profit T-Bar since 1964

Per the same source, Lonesome Pine Trails opened for the 1964-65 season with a rope tow that, due to a lack of snow, likely did not start running until the weekend of January 30, 1965. A predecessor ski area, the "County Ski Tow," had been built in summer 1954 by Philip Pelletier on his family's farm off Route 1 in Fort Kent, with two rope tows, prior to the 1964 founding of what became Lonesome Pine Trails. The area ran on a temporary snowmaking system during the winter of 2001-02, before a permanent system was built for the 2003-2004 season, initially covering the Maine and Reservoir trails.

New England Ski History states Lonesome Pine Trails "continues to operate to this day as a non-profit entity with the T-Bar, snowmaking, and night skiing." Per the operator's own website, it describes itself as "the northernmost ski resort in New England." The Fort Kent Outdoor Center, a Nordic-ski and biathlon facility, was established near Lonesome Pine Trails in 1999 with funding from the Libra Foundation, per New England Ski History; its own homepage describes its trail and disc-golf course climbing "from the lodge into the Lonesome Pine Trails," placing the two facilities directly adjacent to one another. The Outdoor Center's own site describes offering the Jalbert Biathlon Program for youth development, a post-graduate biathlon training program, and a Jalbert Biathlon Residence to house athletes in training. Per Wikipedia's "Fort Kent, Maine" article, "The Fort Kent Outdoor Center (previously known as 10th Mountain) has hosted a multitude of World Cup biathlon events, including the largest events in 2004 and 2011."

Fort Kent, a hand-hewn cedar blockhouse built in 1839 at the confluence of the Fish and Saint John rivers, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 1, 1969 and declared a National Historic Landmark on November 7, 1973; per the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands, it is preserved as Maine's "first, state-owned historic site." The Fort Kent Railroad Station, built in 1902 by the Fish River Railroad and later part of the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, was added to the National Register on April 21, 1989 and is now a railroad-history museum run by the Fort Kent Historical Society, per Wikipedia's article on the station.