The hill
Twenty-two runs off two surface lifts
Phoenix publishes over 800 feet of vertical, twenty-two runs, a T-bar and a rope tow. That is the whole hill, and everything on this page comes from the ski area's own words — where they haven't published something, this page says so instead of filling the gap.
- Vertical
- over 800 ft
- Runs
- 22
- Lifts
- 2
- Terrain park
- Yes
- Lodge
- Cafeteria
- Rentals
- On site
as the hill publishes it
no difficulty split is published
a T-bar and a rope tow
on the hill
in the original day lodge
the rental shop, since 1969
Placeholder photo The lifts
A T-bar and a rope tow. That's it.
No chairlift, no gondola, no plans announced for either. Two surface lifts have carried this hill since the late sixties, and twenty-two runs hang off them.
The rope tow has its own ticket, cheaper than a full lift pass — so a first day, or a morning spent with a child who is not ready for the T-bar yet, does not cost the price of the whole hill.
- T-bar
- The main lift
- Rope tow
- $22 a day
Terrain
Twenty-two runs, and an honest gap
Phoenix publishes the number of runs but not how they break down — no green, blue and black counts, no map of which lift serves what. A concept site is not the place to invent that, so this page leaves the space and names what is missing.
Placeholder photo 
Placeholder photo Not published anywhere we could find
- Summit and base elevation
- Average annual snowfall
- Runs split by difficulty
- Which lift serves which runs
- Grooming and patrol arrangements
Each of these is one sentence from someone who skis here. On a real build they would be the first thing we'd ask the society for — they are the questions every first-time visitor arrives with.
Terrain park
There is a park, and it belongs to the people who ride it
The hill lists a terrain park alongside the lodge, the cafeteria and the rental shop. What is in it changes with the snow and with whoever turned up to shape it — which is exactly what a park on a volunteer hill is.
A feature list and a photo from this winter would do more for it than any amount of design. That is a fifteen-minute job for someone with a phone and a season pass.
Placeholder photo The day lodge
Built within a year of opening. Still in use.
Within a year of the hill opening, a new day lodge and rental shop were built. Both of them are still in use today, over fifty years later. There is a cafeteria in the lodge and a rental shop for anyone who doesn't own kit yet.
Fifty-plus years of a building doing its job without being replaced is not a shortfall. It is the entire argument for a community hill.
- Day lodge
- Cafeteria
- Rental shop
- Terrain park
Placeholder photo Trail map
The map would live right here
On a real build this is where the hill's own trail map sits — zoomable, downloadable, readable on a phone in a lift line. It is left out of this concept because the artwork belongs to the ski society, not to us.
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