Blue Hills Ski Area

Blue Hills Ski Area's own site states it is "Located just south of Boston in the Blue Hills Reservation," at 4001 Washington Street, Canton, MA 02021 -- land that, per Wikipedia's article on the Blue Hills Reservation, is managed by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation and spans six towns: Canton, Milton, Quincy, Braintree, Randolph, and Dedham. Per New England Ski History, the Commonwealth funded the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) to build the ski area, and "Blue Hills finally opened on February 16, 1950 with less than 100 skiers." In December 1962, per that source, the MDC awarded a 10-year lease to Larchmont Engineering Co., beginning the area's history of private operation on state-owned land; Larchmont handed over operations to brothers Robert, Stuart, and Stanley Beers in 1982 under a five-year lease. In August 2000, a six-year lease was granted to the then-owners of Ragged Mountain, New Hampshire -- the Endriunas Brothers -- and that lease ended in "a brief closure in early 2007 when their liability insurance was cancelled," after which the Endriunas Brothers left the ski business. The operators of Campgaw Mountain, NJ then signed a five-year lease in late 2007 under the name Ski Blue Hills Management LLC, and in August 2013 Campgaw announced it had received the contract for another five-year lease. Per the ski area's own About page, "In August 2024, Geoff Homer took the helm" of the operation.