# What States Do Not Have Any Commercial Downhill Ski Areas?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 21, 2001, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-states-do-not-have-any-commercial-downhill-ski-areas/77427 "2001-08-21T21:50:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![evilhanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba8739/32.png) [@evilhanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilhanz)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2001, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-states-do-not-have-any-commercial-downhill-ski-areas/77427/21 "2001-08-22T17:25:21Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Shagnasty \*  
> \*\*Does South Carolina have any ski areas? That state is not accounted for yet. \*\*

Both [South Carolina Ski Clubs](http://www.skicentral.com/southcarolina3.html) travel out of state. There are no commercial ski areeas in the Palmetto state.

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**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2001, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-states-do-not-have-any-commercial-downhill-ski-areas/77427/22 "2001-08-22T18:39:30Z")

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jaimest wrote:

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> There is a place in Texas that has snow skiing, albeit in a very artificial setting.  
> [http://www.texas-on-line.com/graphic/jacksonv.htm](http://www.texas-on-line.com/graphic/jacksonv.htm)

I was about to post that Texas has none as far as I know. The link you did is for Jacksonville, Texas, where I was born, but it doesn’t say anything that I could find about snow skiing. I’ve done lots of real skiing (on water) there though.

So I still say that Texas has none. We have mountains in far West Texas, but the occasional snow isn’t enough to ski on. And we get a decent amount of snow in the far Northwest corner, which is just a few miles from Colorado’s SE corner, but it’s just like the panhandle of Oklahoma - flat as a pan.

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**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2001, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-states-do-not-have-any-commercial-downhill-ski-areas/77427/23 "2001-08-22T18:42:19Z")

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Oops, I stand corrected. The Lookout Mountain area does say something about snow skiing. And it’s just about five miles from where I was born!

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