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Ski Apache

1286 Ski Run Rd, Alto, New Mexico 88312 USA

149 Reviews
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Ski Apache opened under the name "Sierra Blanca Ski Resort" during Christmas of 1961. Amazingly, twenty-six hundred people an hour were fast carried up the ski run crest via three T-bar lifts. In 1962, the very first mono-cable four-passenger gondola in North America was built to accommodate a greater number of skiers. And it seems just in time as twenty-five thousand skiers showed up for the second season.Since 1963, the resort has been owned and operated by the Mescalero Apache Tribe. Only two years after its official opening in 1961, Robert O. Anderson, the wealthy oil man who built and opened the slopes, sold the resort to the able hands of the Mescalero Apaches. It wasn't until the 1984-85 season that the slopes were appropriately named "Ski Apache".The wood-spired Main Lodge was designed by Victor Lundy ... Proclaimed as America's Outstanding Architect in 1958. Since the opening season of 1961, this lodge has stood statuesque, an unfailing sentry below the crest. With wood spires reflective of the surrounding pines, the Lodge mirrors the natural beauty of the Sacramento Mountains. Lundy succeeded in introducing Modernism architecture with a practical eye towards the skiers needs.Ski Apache offers world class skiing, snowboarding, sightseeing, mountain biking, and the longest zip line in the lower 48 states.

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Timothy G.

This WAS a good ski area provided mother nature cooperated. However, as of late the management has been 100% incognito. The website is never updated and no one answers the information line or... Read more

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Scott L.

Yelp says it's closed. I think not. Throngs of Texans in the 51F no wind having a great time Read more

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Teresa C.

Booked a weekend get-away for Ruidoso, where we made plans to ski. It was a "holiday weekend" where holiday rates applied but yet there were closed the actual holiday. Ok. Whatever. It's a small... Read more

Ski Apache

1286 Ski Run Rd
Alto, New Mexico
88312 USA
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