North Creek, New York · Since 1934
America's first ski town is coming back down the hill.
In 1934 the railroad ran the country's first ski train from Manhattan to a village of six hundred people in the Adirondacks. Skiers rode up the mountain and slid back into town. Ninety years later we're rebuilding the bottom of that run — a place to work, a distillery, and a courtyard to stand around a fire in.
The short version
Ride up, slide down.
That was the instruction, and it's still the whole idea. The mountain has never been the problem here. Getting people to stop at the bottom is.
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1934
The snow train
The Delaware & Hudson ran skiers north from New York City to the North Creek depot — the first ski train in the United States. Trucks hauled them up the Ski Bowl road. They skied back into the village and got on the train home.
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1964
The mountain moves
Gore Mountain opened up the road and became the region's anchor. Main Street kept the depot, the name, and progressively less of the traffic.
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2011
The Ski Bowl reconnects
The original hill was stitched back onto Gore. For the first time in decades you could ski from the summit to the edge of the village again. The run came back before the town did.
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Now
The bottom of the run
Four buildings on Main Street and Ordway Lane. A coworking space that's open, a distillery and a winter courtyard that aren't yet. Same instruction as 1934 — we're just building somewhere to land.
Main Street & Ordway Lane
Three things, in the order they open.
All of it within a five-minute walk, and five minutes from the Ski Bowl.
Eiswork
A small coworking space at 235 Main Street. Day passes, a real desk, real internet, and a coffee bar. Built for the people who'd stay through Monday if they could work from here.
Book a desk →Ski Bowl Distillery
A tasting room and bottle shop in a rebuilt barn at 8 Ordway Lane. Schnapps made for cold weather, poured across a bar built out of the old railroad.
What's coming →The Eisgarten
The courtyard between the two barns — ice lanes, a fire pit, market stalls and a tree. Free to walk into, which is the point.
What's coming →Getting here
Four hours from Manhattan. Six hundred people.
North Creek sits in the southeastern Adirondacks on the Hudson, at the foot of Gore Mountain. It is not a resort town and we're not trying to make it one.
- From New York City
- ≈ 4 hours by car, I-87 to Exit 23
- From Albany
- ≈ 1 hour 15 minutes north
- Gore Mountain
- 5 minutes — 107 trails, 2,537 ft vertical
- North Creek Ski Bowl
- 5 minutes — the original 1934 hill