49 Degrees North Ski Area is a lodging, located at NF-4300211, Chewelah, Washington. Visit their website www.ski49n.com for more detailed information.

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NF-4300211, Chewelah, Washington

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Added by Jopie, at 01 January 2020

49 Degrees North Ski Area is a ski resort in the western United States, located inside Colville National Forest in Stevens County, Washington, 10mi east of Chewelah, which is north of Spokane.The base is at an elevation of above sea level with the summit at on Chewelah Mountain, yielding a vertical drop of. Its slopes are primarily north-facing and are served by six chairlifts, one quad and five doubles.The ski area first opened in late 1972 with three chairlifts. It is actually at 48.3° North, about south of the 49th parallel, the international border with Canada. Following two consecutive winters of poor weather, the ski area filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June 1990. In the interim a local man purchased the ski area & is continuing to turn it into a larger & better resort. 49 Degrees North is building condominiums in summer 2016 with ski in/out access. In the 1990s the trees were thinned over most of the 2,300 acres, providing some of the greatest variation & magnitude of tree skiing found @ a single resort in the NW United States. The resort will soon be implementing mountain biking.