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[SkiBachelor]

Swain Resort, a New York ski area has shut its doors and if a buyer is not found by Aug. 15, resort assets will be sold off.

For full story, visit the following link: http://www.wivb.com/dpp/news/Swain_ski_res...r_good_20090401

Trail map of Swain Resort: http://www.swain.com/Portals/0/Swain_Image...Map_2008-09.jpg

Swain has 3 quad lifts and a double.

[iceberg210]

Another resort closing. I had a hunch we might see these this season thanks to the economy, rising costs, etc but I don't know if I expected this many.

Truly another sad day that a resort is on the brink of liquidation if no buyer is found. This whole economy seems now to be hitting the real estate resorts (Yellowstone Club, Tamarack) and also the old smaller resorts, (Gray Rocks, Swain) which unfortunately means that most any resort that's not a huge Killington or Snowbird could be next to go.

Hopefully this is the last one we'll hear about, although I wouldn't bet on it.

On the topic of Swain I wonder what they are asking for it as the lifts might actually have some value to them. I wouldn't, unfortunately, be suprised if no one picks up the package and that any interested parties in the land just take the land without the lifts, after the lifts are sold off. It might be interesting however if someone were able to purchase the place and sell a couple of the lifts off for capitol. Don't know if that would work, or if enough capitol could be raised but it's always a possibility.

Does anyone know who Swain is competing with for the Rochester market? Is the problem that Swain's to small? Too much overhead? Not enough demand? Too much competition?

Being on the West Coast it'd be real interesting to get thoughts from you guys back East.

[SkiBachelor]

The Evening Tribune has a good article about why it's closing. The article mentions it's the only ski area in its region, yet the majority of the town dislikes the ski area.

http://www.eveningtribune.com/news/busines...out-of-business

[Peter]

The 4 lifts are 1979, 1980, and 1985 Borvig Quads as well as a 1971 Borvig Double.

[cloudsinmycoffee]

I spent a lot of time at Swain in the late 90's, $10 college night from 4-10pm...brrrr. It is a shame to lose a place like Swain, it provides skiing opportunities to people from a very rural part of the state. The greatest skiers past and future come from those places.

[skisox34]

Swain is close to where I grew up and I never skied there myself but I am really surprised because for population size there are not that many areas around Western New York.