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In addition to skating, the family-friendly winter sports spot has two rope tows, a bumps course, and kid-sized park features.
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Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 10 Nov. 2025
Most ski areas at that time were serviced by rope tows; in the 1930s, Union Pacific engineer James Curran built the first chairlift at Sun Valley.
—Michelle Bruton, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Nearby Cerro Catedral is the largest ski resort in the Southern Hemisphere, with 75 miles of slopes and 32 chairlifts, cable cars and rope tows.
—Catherine Garcia, theweek, 22 July 2024
But in 1934, when the nation’s first ski lift, a rope tow powered by a Ford Model T engine, was installed on farmer Clinton Gilbert’s pasture, 24 years before Killington opened, this small mountain loomed much larger in the winter sports world.
—Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2022
At three, not good enough yet to ski with my parents and older brother, I was left at the rope tow.
—Rachel Kushner, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
Educated as a mechanical engineer, Mickey Cochran installed a rope tow and affixed floodlights to adjacent trees to turn his rural hillside into a round-the-clock winter playground.
—New York Times, 9 Feb. 2022
There was a gentle hill with a rope tow.
—Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2021
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Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 10 Nov. 2025
Most ski areas at that time were serviced by rope tows; in the 1930s, Union Pacific engineer James Curran built the first chairlift at Sun Valley.
—Michelle Bruton, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Nearby Cerro Catedral is the largest ski resort in the Southern Hemisphere, with 75 miles of slopes and 32 chairlifts, cable cars and rope tows.
—Catherine Garcia, theweek, 22 July 2024
But in 1934, when the nation’s first ski lift, a rope tow powered by a Ford Model T engine, was installed on farmer Clinton Gilbert’s pasture, 24 years before Killington opened, this small mountain loomed much larger in the winter sports world.
—Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2022
At three, not good enough yet to ski with my parents and older brother, I was left at the rope tow.
—Rachel Kushner, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
Educated as a mechanical engineer, Mickey Cochran installed a rope tow and affixed floodlights to adjacent trees to turn his rural hillside into a round-the-clock winter playground.
—New York Times, 9 Feb. 2022
There was a gentle hill with a rope tow.
—Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2021
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“Rope tow.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rope%20tow. Accessed 30 Nov. 2025.
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