Skiers Donna Weinbrecht and Jamie Kurlander
For that winter the resort expanded and relocated its tubing park across the street, renaming it the Dropzone. A new fixed-grip double chairlift was installed and opened in time for the 2012-13 season. In 2010 Sojourn Double, the chairlift that transported people from South to Granite Peak, was retired after 40 years of service. The Diablo Mountain Bike Park was also transferred to company control and renamed Mountain Creek Bike Park.
Mountain Creek has 7 chairlifts, and 2 magic carpets. South Peak Express High Speed Quad 995 5546 Longest of the two express quads on South Peak. Scruton, Bruce A. (August 18, 2019). “Vernon approves Mountain Creek bankruptcy deal”. Fry, Meg (December 21, 2015). “MOUNTAIN MAN: Jeff Koffman is trying to transform Mountain Creek into a world-class 12-month-a-year ‘memory-creating’ action park | NJBIZ”. Sojourn Double Partek 2012 – 4800 Built to connect South Peak to Granite peak.
Great Gorge North was part of a master plan that included a never-built Olympic ski-jump and training facility. Plans for the Playboy Club included a casino and gondola from the hotel to the base at Great Gorge North, neither of which were ever built. Also in 1971, Playboy opened their $20 million, 650-room Great Gorge Playboy Club on 1,000 acres (400 ha) of land a mile away from Great Gorge. Gambling casinos were never approved outside of Atlantic City.
The decaying tent complex remained operational for approximately 13 years through the 2010-11 ski season before being replaced by a permanent lodge named the Red Tail Lodge. In winter 2003 construction began on The Appalachian, a luxury condominium and hotel built on the former parking lot of Vernon base. In 2002, Mountain Creek opened the first phase of its master-planned resort village, Black Creek Sanctuary, a luxury condo community. 94 to the former location of Action Park’s amusement ride and bumper boat area. The Appalachian condo/hotel opened for the 2006-07 season. Parking was moved to the other side of Rt.
Ski races were also held on the Sno-Mats. A connecting chair lift was also installed – the Sojourn double. In 1971, Great Gorge North was built on what is now Mountain Creek’s Granite Peak, and a connecting trail was cut to connect Great Gorge North and the original resort, was renamed Great Gorge South. For a time in the 1970s there was a seasonal train operated by the railroad which offered skiers a way to the slopes and then returned them home. The New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway operates tracks that abut the back of the Great Gorge South parking lot.
