Skyline Skiway

Skyline Skiway near Fort Totten and Devils Lake, North Dakota, was a small downhill hill built around an old ski jump. It sat about ten miles south of Devils Lake just off Highway 57, near Sully's Hill. The ski jump tower came first. SKI Magazine said in 1982 that it was built in 1928 and unused since 1936, while a Lake Region State College account says the club's downhill skiing dates from a formal opening in December 1932 and that the big jump was dropped in 1938 after no tournaments were held and safety worries grew.

The hill itself rose about 300 feet by the magazine's count, and the MWLSAP listing gives a vertical of 311 feet. A 1970 flyer promised four slopes and two trails, an 800-foot tow, a chalet, ski rental, a toboggan slide and a ski patrol. By 1982 it ran two rope tows and snowmaking, with steeper runs and a gentle Back Trail for beginners. The magazine described a crowd of local college students, farm families and personnel from nearby military bases, skiing on weekends and under lights on Wednesday nights. MWLSAP counts it as the first ski area in the state, with that claim marked uncertain and tied to 1955 newspaper items.

Skiing was run by the Lake Region Ski Club and later by Lake Region Winter Sports, Inc., a nonprofit started in 1988 with the Devils Lake Park Board to develop the hill. Cliff Olson served as its president from 1963 until his death in 2008. Dennis Olson, Cliff's son, kept the effort going, and the corporation disbanded in 2014.

Newspaper items list the hill closing in 1995 and 1997, and sources do not agree. Visitors in 2012 found the jump tower mostly blown down and the hill abandoned.