Timber Hill Ski Area
Henryville, Pennsylvania1965-2016
Browse Timber Hill Ski Area tees, long sleeve tees, hoodies and crewnecks. A St. Bernard was the face of the Poconos hill, with a 195-pound real dog named Brandy on the brochure and a cartoon head with a keg on the trail map and woven patch. It later became Alpine Mountain. Pick a style below, and the full Timber Hill history is further down. Every shirt is printed to order in the USA and carries the memories of bygone places and teams.
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Timber Hill Ski Area History
Timber Hill Ski Area near Henryville, Pennsylvania, opened in 1965 on Route 447 in Price Township, about ten miles north of Stroudsburg, and was later renamed Alpine Mountain. Timber Hill, Inc. ran it from a post office box in Canadensis, with Kenneth J. Nicoll as general manager. The first press releases promised two 2,500-foot T-bars and an 800-foot Poma, a rustic base lodge with a cafeteria and rental shop, snowmaking, a slope facing northeast to hold its snow, and a ski school teaching the Natur-Teknik method. The company also cut part of the summit into one-acre lots for vacation homes.
The opening brochure billed Timber Hill as the newest area in the Poconos and put a St. Bernard on the cover. The brochure named the real dog as Brandy, a 195-pound mascot said to be good with small children, and a cartoon St. Bernard head with a keg at its collar sat inside a green triangle on the trail map and on the area's woven patch. The map showed a beginner area, an open slope and four trails up to 4,000 feet long, with parking for 700 cars. By 1979 the area gave its vertical drop as 400 feet and still ran the two T-bars and the Poma.
In the early 1980s the hill was renamed Alpine Mountain. By 1984 it had a new quad chairlift, snowmaking on every slope, a Tudor-style base lodge called the Alpine Village, and runs named Outer Edge, Alpine Way, The Downfall, Roller Coaster, Swivel, Dipsy Do and Far Out. It sold summer chairlift rides and held Oktoberfest events, and its address read Route 447 at Timber Hill, Analomink. Later maps show 21 trails, two quads and a double chair, night skiing on every trail and a six-lane tubing park.
The area was sold at a sealed-bid auction in 2013 and reopened that December under new management, but a run of warm winters made skiing hard to pay for. It was still open in March 2016, went on the market that fall, and in May 2017 a local couple who owned a Harley-Davidson dealership bought the 97 acres for $412,500, planning a destination resort without skiing. That plan never took shape. Visitors in the 2020s found the lodge boarded up and the old chairlifts still standing on the hill.