Ski Area in Honey Brook, Pennsylvania

Honey Brook once had a small ski area off Beaver Dam Road, across from the Tel Hai Retirement Community in Honey Brook, Pennsylvania. Little documented history survives, but the area is remembered through a ski patch, a poster, and the recollections of people who spent time on the hill. Its modest facilities included an A-frame lodge at the base and a masonry building known as the “Cube,” with bunks, a common room, and a fireplace.

Readers recall a distinctive lift on the hill’s west side: a broad, sled-like platform with handrails that was pulled uphill by cables. The machinery’s engine is variously remembered as being in a small cinderblock building or the Cube, with recollections differing over whether it was a Cadillac or Volkswagen engine. By the 1970s, the property was also a destination for minibikes, target and skeet shooting, and berry picking. These memories, along with surviving memorabilia, offer a glimpse of a low-key local ski hill whose facilities remained familiar to area children long after skiing ended.