Thanks to some posts on other forums, I started looking a little bit further west at some hinted at lost ski areas. One that jumped out at me was "Lakewood Village" near Ashland, KY. According to most of what I found through my google-fu, it was a late 70's/early 80's ski area. I found the village, and looked for likely spots for a slope. With Bing bird's eye view, I found Lakewood Village ski slope. The top of the hill is at the bottom of the photo. You can see the remains of a bullwheel at the top, some possible unloading station remains, fotters for the base at the bottom of the hill, and 2 base lodge building remains across a small ditch. Does not appear on skilifts.org survey.

I would consider stopping that way to explore the next time I go to visit the wife's family, but that area is pretty much "Copperhead Rd" territory.

General Butler was a kentucky ski area I believe, not sure where in relation to lakewood. Audi Ricter who ran Laurel Mt in the 1980,s went there to run it. Thus Audis run at laurel.

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Gen Butler was on the Ohio River, about midway between Cincinatti, OH, and Louisville, KY. Lakewood Village as south of Ashland, KY, where OH, KY, and WV meet. I am guessing that LV was a semi-private spinoff of the planned community, like Terra Alta, WV was.

At Jenny Wiley state park in Kentucky there is a bull wheel along the road, locals said it was a chair lift used to acces picnic grounds up on the mountain, never was for skiing, any other such things seen around??

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