Eagle Mountain Ski Area
Pattersonville, New York
Shop Eagle Mountain Ski Area tees, long sleeve tees, hoodies and crewnecks. Near Pattersonville, New York, it had only about 350 feet of vertical but 14 trails, two T-bars and a rope tow, with Ladies' Night on Wednesday and Men's Night on Thursday. Its trails included Flying Dutchman and Woestina, the name of a Dutch settlement of the 1670s. Pick a style below, and the full Eagle Mountain history is further down. We are an American small business bringing back the signs and logos of places and teams that are long gone but remembered fondly.
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Eagle Mountain Ski Area History
Eagle Mountain Ski Area near Pattersonville, New York, was a small hill off Rynex Corners Road in the town of Rotterdam, about seven miles west of Schenectady. Its vertical drop was only about 350 feet, but the slope was wide, and it held 14 trails served by two T-bars and a rope tow. When it opened is not on record. A 1972 ski guide lists the same hill as the Homestead Ski Area, with a 1,500-foot T-bar, three tows and day and night skiing, and the area also went by Fox Hollow at some point.
By 1980 it was the Eagle Mountain Ski Center, selling season passes for $45 and up. Its trail names leaned local: Flying Dutchman, Hemlock, Fox Run, Whip-Back, Number Nine, and Woestina, the name of a Dutch settlement in Rotterdam from the 1670s.
The 1987-88 brochure shows a busy little area. The lights were on Tuesday through Saturday nights, with Ladies' Night on Wednesday, Men's Night on Thursday and College Night on Tuesday. Eagle Mountain had snowmaking, its own freestyle team that practiced on Sundays, freestyle meets, and lessons in snowboarding, which the brochure called ski boarding. It closed around 1988, and that season is the last one on record.