Peak Resorts was a publicly traded company based in Wildwood, Missouri that operated ski resorts in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast portions of the United States. It was bought by Vail Resorts in 2019.
History
The company was founded in 1977 by Tim Boyd two years after graduating the University of Missouri when he bought the Wildwood Golf Course in Wildwood, Missouri, for $250,000 with owner financing. In 1982, he added a ski resort that would become Hidden Valley Ski Area. Shortly thereafter, he opened a ski-resort in suburban Kansas City, Missouri, at Weston, Missouri (Snow Creek Ski Resort).[1]
The company continued to expand owning Paoli Peaks in Paoli, Indiana; Boston Mills and Brandywine in Peninsula, Ohio.
In 2002, it expanded with Crotched Mountain in Bennington, New Hampshire. In addition it had long-term leases on Jack Frost and Big Boulder ski areas in Blakeslee, Pennsylvania in the Poconos as well as Mad River Mountain in Valley Hi, Ohio.[1][2]
In 2002, the company acquired Crotched_Mountain_Ski_&_Ride
List of ski areas
Ski Resorts formerly owned and operated by Peak Resorts, at the height of their ownership in 2019:
East
Midwest
- Crotched Mountain, New Hampshire (2003)
- Big Boulder, Pennsylvania (2005)
- Jack Frost Ski Resort, Pennsylvania (2005)
- Attitash Mountain Resort, New Hampshire (2007)
- Mount Snow, Vermont (2007)
- Wildcat Mountain Ski Area, New Hampshire (2010)
- Hunter Mountain, New York (2015)
- Liberty Mountain Resort, Pennsylvania (2018)
- Ski Roundtop, Pennsylvania (2018)
- Whitetail Ski Resort, Pennsylvania (2018)
External links
References
- Boyd's ski resort revenue climbs to $85 million - St. Louis Business Journal - February 23, 2007^
- Detailed Logan County Map, Logan County Engineer's Office. Accessed 2009-01-27.^
- Peak Resorts, Inc. Common Stock (SKIS) NASDAQ.com, retrieved 2019-07-02^