Lonesome Pine Trails

According to New England Ski History's Lonesome Pine Trails page, in February 1964 Elmer Pelletier chaired a meeting at which the Fort Kent Ski Association was formed; Ed Cates was elected chairman of a ski tow and site committee, soon becoming association president. Lonesome Pine Trails, Inc. was formed on July 16, 1964, and that September the group purchased a 20-acre tract of land on Stevens Hill, also called Klein/Kline Hill, for $3,000. The area 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. 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," and per the operator's own website, it describes itself as "the northernmost ski resort in New England."