Mt. Storm Ski Area

Mt. Storm Ski Area near Stormville, New York, sat on a north-facing hillside along Route 52 in the town of East Fishkill, in southern Dutchess County, a few miles east of the Taconic State Parkway and close enough to Interstate 84 that drivers could see the lights. The owners' family later said skiing there went back to the 1950s, but no opening season has turned up in print. By 1970 the national ski guides listed Mt. Storm Ski Area with a 600-foot vertical drop, an 1,800-foot T-bar, a 1,400-foot Poma, three rope tows, snowmaking and night skiing.

The area was not running in 1975, when the Herman family bought it and reopened it. Their brochure called it Mt. Storm Ski and Recreation Area, 60 miles north of New York City, and sold it on the short drive: less time in the car, more time on the snow. It listed a main lodge with a restaurant, cocktail lounge and snack bar, a ski school, a ski patrol, rentals, camping, and night skiing four evenings a week. The Hall T-bar carried most skiers up the hill. A Borvig double chair was later put in to open new terrain, but it saw little or no use and was sold to another ski area.

The lodge burned in 1987 in a fire blamed on arson, and the area never reopened. The family kept the land, and the cost of insurance and repairs kept the lifts still. In 2003 the T-bar stood intact with its bars still hanging, while a Mighty Mite handle tow from Mt. Storm was running at Thunder Ridge in nearby Patterson. The Appalachian Trail now crosses the top of the hill.

In early 2026 the old ski hill was listed for sale as part of an 88-acre parcel on Route 52, marketed as the former Mount Storm ski area.