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One of the largest ski resorts on the east coast is Sugar Loaf in Maine. At first that’s what I thought you were talking about and I couldn’t believe I hadn’t heard a place that big closed. Thankfully it’s just the same name.
Thought the same. “Oh no! Not Sugarloaf!”
Yup! totally freaked out there for a minute!! LOL
I always find watching videos of places once swarming with people,left abandoned and exposed to the elements,very sad😔
Heres to Sugarloaf Ski Resort🥂
I skied there in 1975,76,77, I didn't even know it was abandoned, it seems crazy, it was so busy when I went there. A shame. 🇺🇸
Used to be a big name
I appreciate the way you intersperse old photos and videos of places in their heyday. Thank you
I grew up here in the 70s and learned to ski here. If you didn't get their early you had to park out on the street. After I moved back here my wife at the time and a friend of mine worked their til the very last day. Her in housekeeping and he was the maintenance man. It's such a shame to see what it has become compared to what it once was. I also remember the new years party there in 99. What a blast
Is Darth Vader walking next to you? I know he is because I can hear him breathing!
have you ever heard of wearing a mask for mold?
Mold will kill you
Had both of my proms there. So sad to see the ballroom destroyed
Skied here as a kid in the 70s when skiing with the family was affordable, not what it has become now with $150 plus lift tickets.
Why did they leave all those skis and boots there? I know junk today, but probably worth $50/set back in 2000?
Excellent editing with the commercial then showing the same spots today.
21:23 Whoa! were those...? REAR-ENTRY boots???? ROFLMAO
BTW...1984 ATT called(collect)...they want their sweaters, turtlenecks, Big short hair, and 4 Seasons Buffet back...well, you can keep the Buffet :)
I wanted them to open one of those old sodas.
The kid that died in 96 got chopped in half by the bullwheel. I was on the bus on the way to school when it happened, remember hearing about it. He was fucking around, doing backflips off the lift
Nices 😊👍👉
Where you using breathing aparatus?
The hill in my backyard is as big. Lol
You're saying "mountain" wrong. There's a T in the middle. Gawd I hate that.
Real Sugarloaf is in Maine. Specify.
One of my favorite locations♥️ So sad to see it go. 💔 Amazing videos guys. great tribute to an incredible place.
The county tore it down and now it has suitable condos for all people
i was the last skier down Sugar loaf. It was a rainy day April 2000. The lifts had stopped spinning for the last time. I skied a wet strip of ice left over from the season, if you have skied in Northern Michigan you will understand. I sold my home on South Lake Leelanau and moved to Aspen Colorado. Sugar Loaf closing changed my life.
I was the one that pinched a loaf on the pillows the last stay in that room....lol
I'd say you traded up big time.
I was there the last day it was open too, but you are not the last skier to go down it, just the last to go down that year. I switched to the Homestead for a couple years after the Loaf closed and when I turned 21 I moved to Steamboat. I'm in Tahoe now so just kept going
It's still open what is this
@@TheCiaMKultra
A buddy and I were the last 2 that were supposed to be repelled off the lift after 3 hours when the power line was shot in 99. We had already kicked off our skis and ditched our poles, but the lift started running right before they were gonna repel us off. Slid on our backs down awful awful to grab skis, warmed up at the lodge and we're given 2 free pitchers of beer for our troubles. We weren't upset but certainly not gonna pass up free beer. And we were a mess after that! 😂 Got my skis hung up in the chair at the lift bc I was toasted afterward and overheard liftie saying "this is the worst I've seen in years" 🤣😂🤣 Good times!
Not really but in michshitgen its the climax of his life
Is that a respirator we're hearing when you're walking around the lodge?
Thanks for sharing, I had no idea Sugarloaf closed! BTW, What’s with the heavy, loud breathing on the audio? Super annoying.
I would guess he's wearing a respirator. Who knows what's in there. Hantavirus would be a big concern for starters.
@@fireguyCO oh yes makes sense! Thanks!
I would kill to be able to go back to the '80s and '90s. Life was so much simpler and better and none of the tyranny that's going on today, thanks to the internet
Complaining about how he didn’t talk abt it being in Michigan as if he didn’t say leelanau county and traverse city over and over, as well as play all the commercials and reels that said Traverse city, Michigan… 🤨
Great video man it’s cool to see stuff about sugar loaf because it’s kinda hard to find info about it now.
Thank you. I was wondering where it was.
Skied the hill and played the golf course. The resort was nice, but doomed by its location far up the Leelenau Pennisula. It was an extra hour's drive from Metro Detroit via non-freeway roads to a much larger degree than its main competitors, like the Boyne complex. It's claim to fame was "the largest vertical drop", but that applied only to one run with horrible snow conditions. High winds off nearby Lake Michigan swept it clean of any snow, right down to the icy base put down for snowmaking into which it was damn near impossible to place an edge. It was something you'd eventually try one time, then decide there was not much point in going back when there were bigger resorts nearer to your home. An extra hour's drive was a big deal when you left Friday after work and returned home on Sunday.
I've skied in the Lake Tahoe region several times, and was suprised at how the runs were cut up by terrain and lack of snow down towards lake level. Sure, in Michigan, 550' was a "big hill", but most of my runs at Heavenly or Squaw Valley were only a little big bigger when measured by vertical drop. Most recreational skiers can't take the burn in their thighs for much longer than about a 700 ft. vertical drop, so a hill with close to that much vertical is all you really need, other than good snow and a nice, sunny day. Few run allow for you to ski 4,000 vertical feet in one fell swoop, even if your were athletic enough to do so.
I've always felt the emphasis on youth skiing for these small, local resorts created a downward spiral. Kids are irresponsible. They lack respect for a facility, but, more importantly, they just don't spend money like adults do. They can't get sloshed dumping loads of money on alcohol in the bars and restaurants. The resort ends up with no funds to remodel, things start to look a bit shabby and a bit dirty, adults stop coming to the place, and a downhill spiral ensues until Chapter 11 beckons.
Heavenly and Palisades (FKA Squaw Valley) are very nice mountains but they're a bit smaller and lower than the biggest and highest resorts in the US (like Alta, Snowbird, Jackson Hole, etc.) A high elevation and long vertical drop (Jackson exceeds 4,000 feet) is a huge asset because as you go higher, there is more snow and it's lighter and drier than the snow below it. And with a big mountain, the crowds stay on the lower part and leave the best skiing up top to the experts. So I couldn't disagree more with your statement that 700 feet is all anyone needs. More is always better from my standpoint.
All the young adults who continued to snowboard went to Colorado, pnw etc
@@humanbeing2420 Another reply brought me back here after one year. I intentionally used the term "recreational skier" and never claimed experts would be happy with a 700' vertical drop. The great majority of skiers stay away from black diamond runs and ski from where the lift drops them off down to the lift line for the same lift, and do not go looking for 4,000 ft. of vertical drop in one run.
Why do people feel the need to vandalize stuff? So disturbing…
I met a green-eyed lady there once... child of nature, friend of man.. She lived for life to be,
setting suns and lonely lovers free...
25 mins in. It was NOT the freight elevator that caused that accident but it was an old "dum waiter" that was in the ski patrol building.
I grew up in northern central Michigan throughout all of the 80’s and 90’s. I also grew up skiing. In fact, my high school even had a ski team that I was on. Some of those old promo videos are pretty much how I remember most of the places to ski in northern Michigan. They were so great. So vibrant. Michigan skiing wasn’t like out west or overseas in the Alps or something. Many times you spent more time on the lifts than you did skiing down the hill. They were skill nice places, but because they weren’t mountains, or maybe quite as luxurious as out in the Rockies or Alps, they were much more affordable overall. I often mention to friends now that I grew up skiing, and they think I must have been rich. But it was different in Michigan. It was more affordable and common. A lot of my equipment I got with my family at “ski swaps”, that were usually held in the gyms of local high schools. Everyone brought equipment they wanted to sell, and you could either buy it or swap your used equipment with others. But even if you didn’t have your own equipment, the ski places always rented it all too. So it wasn’t as if you had to actually own equipment that was brand new from that year. I grew up just a few miles from a very small ski hill, with just one loft and a couple of rope tows. It was very small, and at least during the 80’s literally had a truck stop right next to it. The first time I ever skied out west it felt like I was in Beverly Hills or something it felt so nice, and the runs so long. But skiing in Michigan was formative. It taught me how to be a skilled skier, but not a snobbish or pretentious one. I still really value having that skill to this day. Golf was kind of the same way in most of Michigan too. They’re still activities to this day, that although I rarely get to do now, that I value. I’ve always been able to just pick them right back up like riding a bike. It’s something than can even open up doors for you in business and your career or friendships too.
I'm surprised I never skied there. I lived in Midland and mostly skied Boyne, and Boyne Highlands back then. Occasionally Nubs Nob,. Locally, there was Snow Snake Mountain in Harrison and Bintz Apple Mountain (now gone) in Freeland.
@@myleftthumb2294 Preaching to the choir, my friend. I grew up in Harrison, so I learned to ski at Snow Snake. But when we skied out of town it was usually Boyne Highlands, Crystal Mountain, or Boyne Mountain. We occasionally were at Caberfae, Bintz, Nubs, or Shanty Creek/Schuss though.
Michigan residents keep electing democ-rats to run their state the entire state will look like this resort! Just look at what years of dum, I mean dem rule have done to Detroit and surrounding areas.
@@4GuitarTrance Oh please. It’s the exact opposite issue and not just confined to Michigan, but the entire country. I’ve had people from the opposite side key my parents cars below their political stickers/magnets on their cars, write hateful things on their signs during elections, and even follow my mother home once only to wait until she got out of her car and swear at her. Then you have people going into the capitol building in Lansing wielding guns. To say nothing of the larger things like that happening from that side throughout the country. Adults don’t behave that way. Not even five year old children. And I never see anyone from the opposite side behaving that way, but are calm and caring, thinking about the future and bigger picture. People seem to think that our elections today are just a big joke, where they can say “Ha ha, wouldn’t it be funny if we got someone from a reality TV show with zero political experience of knowledge about how our country works elected?” But our elections are not some big joke. It’s not funny to be racist, sexist, ignorant, or narcissistic. Many times when I return to the rural area of Michigan where my parents live anymore, I feel extremely uncomfortable and borderline unsafe around the extremist behaviors I see. That’s not the way adults act or what the United States is about. And it was never that way when I was growing up in Michigan for sure. But some of the ski resorts in Michigan like Sugarloaf or even places like malls that have fallen into decline, have nothing to do with our current elections or government. Places like those that have fallen into decline just represent changing tastes, overbuilding, and bigger global financial changes. Take a step back, calm down, educate yourself, and think about what you’re saying before you say it.
@@cgimovieman I don't have to educate myself... what I say is absolute fact. Sorry if you're one of the democrat's sheep and you, as with most democrats, cannot handle the obvious truths of life!
Yes, there are major problems throughout the entire nation... but we were talking about Michigan, weren't we? (Reading and listening comprehension is a wonderful thing... try it!)
What you're saying about people on the opposite side keying cars, following people home, etc... that would be committed by petulant, democrat (so-called "progressive") whiners who commit those types of arrogant, self-serving, fascist acts because they didn't get their way.. PERIOD!
The last President did more economically and internationally for this nation than probably any other President since Reagan... maybe more. Even Reagan gave in to some of the nut-job leftists' demands (temper tantrums, as usual)... and apparently you can't handle it because your party of choice screws everything they put their greedy, incompetent, America-hating hands on.
Look at us now.. in two short years we have astronomical foods prices, terrible energy prices, supply shortages, home values plummeting, home prices rising, crime running rampant in the streets in only democrat-run cities and states, Detroit is STILL the sh!thole it was 30-40 years ago because of non-stop democrat party rule, Chicago has become that, LA and San Francisco are both the capitols of rampant homelessness and urine/feces/needle/drug-infested sidewalks and walkways as well as NYC at the hands of yet another idiot democrat mayor... ALL run by evil, self-serving, clueless democrats and their fascist city council members... we could be on the brink of Nuclear war with Russia because moronic democrats STILL try to push the sociopathic narrative of "Russia Collusion", taxes are going through the roof once again, your party wants to kill babies even after they are born by leaving them in some back room and allowing them to die on their own at the murder center where the botched abortion occurred, we have a puppet for a President who doesn't know where he is or what he's saying at any given moment... and the evil that is the democrat party and the current administration's power-hungry sociopaths are using his dementia and possible alzheimers to manipulate him and take advantage of his illness, leftist schools are telling children they are not sure of their gender and advocating sex-change operations for little children who cannot yet even take care of themselves, telling parents they have NO AUTHORITY over THEIR OWN children. The democ-rat party is as evil as any world dictator history has had to cope with... domestic terrorists against their own nation... and I could go on for literal HIOURS about the incompetence, greed, arrogance, and foolishness of the democrat party and what they've done to this nation the last 50+ years. But you, possibly, like most all self-blinding leftists, don't wish to hear or accept truth because it doesn't "feel" good to you?
You know, brains are for thinking... not "feeling"! Try thinking sometimes!
"FACTS do not care about your feelings!"
Everything dems put their hands on they turn into chaos, immorality, and depravity, and they NEVER accept responsibility for their actions after they've ruined whatever they touch.
Look at the immoral nut Michigan just re-elected as governor, again.
CAUTION: the Above commentary is 100% FACT. DO NOT READ if you are a self-blinding human ostrich... it WILL NOT "FEEL GOOD" for you... period!
Come get your education... if you're ready to grow up now! 😛
Seems to me that Sugar Loaf needed a billionaire sugar daddy. Should have tried the name "Ski Loaf" instead? Great video, thanks for sharing.
Would be nice if Michigan was in the title, there is an operational Sugarloaf ski resort in Maine.
And another in new Brunswick Canada
What a beautiful looking resort! Such a shame no one can find a way to make a go of it. Sad to see the remnants of visitors having lots of fun including the little kids. Maybe some day..... In Southern California people are trying to resurrect a couple of the tiny ski resorts in the local mountains. With the weather so unpredictable most have added mountain bike trails and frisbee golf for year-round use. I hope Sugarloaf can get another life too!
It's a sign of the times people have less and less disposable income.....
I looked into buying Sugarloaf,but a green eyed lady said don’t call us we’ll call you.
I see what you did there! 👍🏻
Lovely Lady??
Not to be mixed up with Sugarloaf Maine or Sugarloaf Provincial Park ski hill in New Brunswick Canada.
Like the before and after feed you do in your exploration video. The in depth research you do also is awesome Great work.
It always makes me sad that people destroy places like this and don’t revitalize it
Outstanding vid, with historical stories.
4000+ vertical is great more time riding. Typically we would break up into sections its nice you can hitbsome steep and deep trees the ride out on fast groomerscwith BIG rollers
I'd really love to start exploring places. I'm around d the Lansing area and not sure where or hoe to start exploring places like this! Any tips on getting started would be amazing!!
I get safety but the darth Vader noises make it hard to watch at times. They make mask that will protect against most molds that don't require a full on painting respirator. With a place that open it prob isn't too horrible. Or maybe have someone on your team that doesn't where a respirator hold the camera?
It's sad to see such a large and very popular Ski Resort fall into ruin like this. The same as happened to many once popular skiing areas on the east coast in New England.
Too many mild winters and excessively expensive lift tickets and lodging fees will do it every time.
Another AWSOME video!!! I L-O-V-E IT when you superimpose the before and now in your locations!!!
This might be a 2 or 3 parter for me to get through but I hope it counts as a view each time.
I remember staying there one holiday in the '70s with friends and did some downhill iceskating.
The noise you hear in the snowmaking room is a transformer going bad, eventually it will go, probably with some fire.
Lol michigan i was like wtf ive been sking a ghost 4 how long now. Sugerloaf Maine
It must have been a busy place in it’s day
Perhaps
Loved this. Enjoyed the editing of past commercials and info. I've never been there but have heard of it. Shame it seems resorts like these are becoming a thing of past.
I'm from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania you should check out some of the abandoned here. Thanks, your content is awesome.
I know people think the potato farm idea was awful but as a gardener I think genius but back then it was hand dig up and not machine like now. 😆
I live in uk I love watch these what I dot understand wh do these sort places close as ski is popular
Something about abandoned ski resorts that is more sad than spooky. Great video!
Very interesting considering that the actual structures and buildings were demolished over the past year. When was the filmed?
not sure when filmed, but as someone who's explored it, it's all real!
I kept looking for some terrain .......
Too bad the place was abandoned and failed.
These kind of walk-throughs show what animals a lot of humans actually are in reality.
Keep that in mind and keep your powder dry.
Tougher times are on the way and This Video shows the depravity of the goblins out there.
Oh, we are already there. This is NOT a "free" country. Hell. It's not even a country anymore but rather a conquerer nation. Communism has won. Look at every Communist DemoKKKRAT run shithole city you can name. Baltimore, Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, L.A., San Franshitsco, Houston, Dallas, Memphis.... I grew up in St. Louis and the hell if I will ever go back, especially never with my kids. Then you factor all of the rampant anti-Whitism, reverse racism and blacl on white crime. So yes, keep your powder dry, lift heavy weights every day, stay in shape and horde ammo and weapons.
Things are getting very frightening indeed!
As I watch this I can't help but feel that some places are better left to be reclaimed. One of my closest friends was Killed there....I think of him often he was a Amazing and magical Human Being. This video brings back the awful sense of loss when I remember back to his memorial.
How?
I loved Sugar Loaf. So sad to see this, but valuable post. Thanks.
Ahh, this is in Michigan, I asked Siri where Glen Hsrbor was, anyway, the land of 0 employment, I know former residents that moved from there because there wasn’t any work to be found, just another forgotten Rust Belt State?? I can’t know. Ha. Good stuff, I am fascinated with abandoned pools, reminds me of the Iron Maiden song “Still Life.”
yes another Democrat shat hole controlled state. Detroit was the san fran of its day. enjoy
@@jaysmith5105 😀
Sounds to me like you don't actually know anything about michigan and should stop speaking
@@russfountain3989 Make me, ha, I know people from there. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, very high unemployment rate, rust belt craphole.
Interesting, thank you ! By the way, as you may know already, there is another Sugar Loaf ski resort, huge by eastern standards, in northern Maine, not at all abandoned by the way. Nevertheless I am sorry for Michigan population that they no longer enjoy the benefit of this fine leisure facility !
The Loaf!!! Top Five, other honorable mentions would be. Jay Peak, Stowe, Killington and Mad River. The Loaf however remains my favorite in the east.
I know this couldn’t be the Sugarloaf in Maine. I was up there in the area less than a year ago. The hills in the video look just a little bit too small to be the Sugarloaf in Maine.
@@vernoncooke7348 Yes, clearly, Sugarloaf Maine is a big mountain and ski station by northeastern standards. I was just sharing the fact of their similar names, but the comparison stops there.
So has the whole thing gone now? Great video, one of your best!
Gone like dust in the wind. It’s a mystery as to who owns it now.
Happy New Year!!😉😊😁
Never skied the loaf but never skied MI, flying to Colorado took less time than driving to UP...
Snow King in Jackson Wy has greater vertical than this joke of a resort.
In Lutsen Mn we have similar place as sugarloaf, just actually mtn but suffers same little hill middle of nowhere thing, if locals can keep it goin they survive (like Lutsen) but little ski hills trying to be a resort never works.
Snowcrest in Wi was prolly bigger than sugarloaf and it died before snowboarding could save it. Little ski hills don’t make sustainable resorts.
An airstrip hmmmm...you mean coke runway in the late 60's...a bank default and then a fire eh? This is the Goodfellas playbook, to a "T".
What a beautiful piece of property. I never was a skier but, how sad
It’s a shame when I first saw the abandoned Sugarloaf ski resort I thought they were talking about Sugarloaf mountain in Maine
No that sugarloaf is very much alive and booming
Which sugarloaf is this? Maine or New Brunswick. There are a few Sugarloaf ski hills.
This one was in Michigan.
Ok cool
Traverse City, MI
@@THX-vb8yz MI is a dump.
@@apocyldoomer Hahahaha....
Thanks Dick.
Vader: Luke...I am your..... ski instructor!
Luke: Noooooooo!
Michigan not Maine for those who are very confused right now.
Worked on a couple of houses in the area to the east in the 1990s. By that time the place was already fading away.
We stayed there as a family right around before it closed. It was eerie then. Especially the empty restaurant on the cliff.
With warmer weather in the N.E. and mid atlantic regions you cant really support a ski area aanymore😢 pa nj and ny had a lot of fun hills
Sugarloaf and Timberlee (now Timberlee Hills), where you wanted great skiing and steep hills?
Sugarloaf's Awful Awful.
Midwest good....but good!
Witmer probably wants to turn into a re-education camp for those who think "wrong things".
Great video. Especially showing the then vs now.
I can't believe they didn't liquidate anything All those skis left behind etc
Change is inevitable. Great video.
What’s with the ghost like breathing noises as he walks around 🤦♂️
So what's going to happen toit be torn down what ashamed but tell me what really happen here please ?
I didn't even know it closed... It was awesome back in the day.
Very cool video tour! That breathing though.
When i was in the special Olympics Michigan games in the 90s i enjoyed the place
Wearing a mask because of the mold, I assume. 👍🏻
All of those great wooden chairs in the hotel rooms, hope you salvaged one
Such waste the ski boots and skis left there they could been donated
That was the worst jingle I've ever heard.
More like Pinch a loaf now , sad decay of a nice property
I went to boarding school in glen arbor in the late 80’s early 90’s and skied there almost everyday during the winter….
The Leelanau School?
So, it's become a tourist resort? Nice.
This sure brought back memories. I learned to ski in the early 80's at a small ski area across the road from the southern end of Lake Leelenau called Timberlee. Skiing at Sugar Loaf was really hitting the big time back then. Ha!
I, too, skied at Timberlee. It was part of my Michigan skiing education. Booked a condo/lift tickets package in late January, attracted by the availability of lighted night skiing. Temps quickly dropping to -30F after the sun went down sort of ruined the night skiing bit. I never booked a ski trip to Northern Michigan for January ever again.
Just curious what that sound is when you are filming... it sounds like someone shoveling snow constantly...
Respirator!
Interesting place that, it is amazing I've actually heard of it in the past, after seeing what it turns out to have been. Looks like they brought it to its maximum potential for such a small hill, only enough to attract locals so it takes a lot of work to maintain enough interest. Not nearly big enough for even mountain biking. Just a bit more than a skating rink and swimming pool really, but probably would of made a good terrain park for local boarders had they kept up with the times and brought in enough revenue to maintain which I assume was their downfall as there's nothing to attract anyone from more than an hour or two drive away. Could possibly be made into one of those single Hotel Water Parks with a Skate/Snowboard park, but I don't know why anyone would waste their money of that except perhaps someone like Great Wolf Lodge. Reminds me of defunct amusement parks or shopping malls. Amazing they were able to fool so many people with their marketing in order to compare themselves with real ski slopes, but any local that went somewhere else and became a serious skier would realize that immediately so they couldn't even maintain local support to bring in enough revenue for maintenance for long.
it actually was a really successful resort for a long time, and as someone who has climbed the hill, it's pretty damn steep and it attracted a lot of people
So is this still standing like this or now demolished
Fantastic video! What an amazing space. Thanks
Sugar loaf needed a mountain
This has redrum written all over it ...
I didn't even know it closed
Sad. The same fate happened to Birch Park, Wisc. around '82. Lack of snow, people , etc. We'd party in their own buildings, back in the 80s. Bye. C.
Sugarloaf in Maine is the real deal
This is just so depressing.
Huge construction for a 700' hill .. I remember the name 'Sugar Loaf' way back (1970's) but it was Sugarloaf Mountain in MAINE. Dilapitated chairs and echoes remain today. Great images, memories and sounds, Past and Present!
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Wendy , I'm home .