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Sugarbush was opened on December 25, 1958, by Damon and Sara Gadd and Jack Murphy. In 1977, the Gadds sold the resort to Roy Cohen. Cohen purchased the Glen Ellen Ski Area (Mount Ellen) in 1979 and annexed it to Sugarbush.
Win owned and operated Sugarbush for 18 years until the resort was purchased by the Alterra Mountain Company on January 14, 2020. Alterra Mountain Company owns 16 ski resorts throughout the USA and Canada including Stratton Mountain and Mont Tremblant in the East and Deer Valley, Steamboat, and Palisades Tahoe in the West.
Early Years. Upper Glen Ellen. As the story goes, engineer Walton Elliott told his wife Cynthia that he wanted to relocate from Connecticut to Vermont to start a ski area. The young family soon moved to Warren, as Elliott assembled a group of investors and acquired land on the side of Mt. Ellen.
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In 1977, the Gadds sold Sugarbush for a reported $4.2 million to Roy Cohen, president of coin-operated-laundry-equipment supplier Solon Automated Services. Shortly thereafter, circa the fall of 1978, Solon Automated Services purchased Glen Ellen ski area for a reported $2.4 million and renamed it Sugarbush North. Top to bottom snowmaking was ...
2020sTicket PriceSeason Pass PricePass Payback2022-23$205.64$1229.006.0 days2021-22$185.20$1149.006.2 days2020-21$162.94$1149.007.1 days2019-20$134.00$1270.949.5 daysJan 21, 2021 · Mt. Ellen is the former Glen Ellen ski area, which was absorbed by Sugarbush in 1978 and was connected to the Lincoln Peak slopes by the two-mile Slidebrook Express lift during Otten’s time. In the early ’80s, we counted on North for two things: cheap student passes ($199—even a Harris Hall cafeteria dishwasher could scrape that up) and ...
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Dec 21, 2023 · In some respects, this is the story of a lost Vermont ski area, or more accurately a lost and found Vermont ski area. The original ski area was called Glen Ellen and founded by Walt Elliot. Elliot was an engineer working at an acoustic tile company in New York City, but he was also a skier and had been involved in building and running a ski ...
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Nov 23, 2015 · The ski area that Elliott conceived in the early 1960s would be, above all, a family mountain. Purchased from a private landowner with funds raised by Elliott and a small group of investors, Glen Ellen opened for business in December 1963, with twenty-eight trails, three chair lifts, and a T bar.
