Since I've moved out here to Linden I have always wondered why there aren't any ski areas in these mountains. Additionally I have always noticed an area at the top of the mountain across from I66 from me that totally looks like a ski resort.
Apparently.... it WAS a ski area! I somehow ran across this: Lost Ski Areas: Ski Cherokee
This is quite upsetting and not only because I would love to have a close place to go skiing. The most depressing part about all of this is that the land is now being auctioned off for more homes and developement. I've only lived here a year and I'm incredibly irritated already by the developement that is happening around me. I moved here and I bought a house that was already built and there are still about 100 homes in Linden alone on the market but yet they need to keep building. Nothing matters except profit and people will destroy anything if it'll make a buck. In doing all of this there is absolutely no need to respect the people that have grown up in the areas they are destroying.
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Yes... It was a ski area, but a crappy one. I skiied Cherokee once in high school, and it was worse than Whitetail or Liberty. There's really not enough natural snow fall this far south for a ski area to be any good. Best skiing on the east coast is definitely New York and Vermont.
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