| Turner Mountain Ski Resort | |
| Location: | Lincoln County, Montana |
| Nearest City: | Libby – Kalispell |
| Pushpin Map: | Montana#United States |
| Pushpin Relief: | 1 |
| Vertical: | 2110feet |
| Top Elevation: | 5952feet |
| Base Elevation: | 3842feet |
| Number Trails: | 20 |
| Liftsystem: | 1 double chairlift |
| Snowfall: | 250inches |
| External Link: | skiturner.com |
Turner Mountain Ski Resort is an alpine ski area in the western United States, located in northwest Montana, 22miles north of Libby.[1]
The mountain is known for its fall-line powder skiing. Libby is located along the western portion of U.S. Route 2 in the Kootenai Valley between the Cabinet Mountains to the south and the Purcell Mountains to the north.
Turner is 22 miles north of Libby that once was a mining and logging town. In the late 1930s, an enthusiastic group of Libby skiers formed Kootenai Ski Club (later Libby Ski Club) in order to develop a ski area. In the 1950s they started a plan to develop Turner Mountain into a ski area, and it was opened on New Year's weekend of 1961. The summer after the first season, a T-bar was added.[2] [3]
Turner Mountain Ski Area is volunteer-run and managed by a nonprofit organization called Kootenai Winter Sports Ski Education Foundation, Inc..[4]
The resort received funding from the City of Libby Economic Development Fund to develop a new lodge facility. It was completed in February 2006.[5]
The T-bar to the summit, over a mile (1.6 km) in length, debuted in 1961.[1] It was succeeded by a double chairlift in the fall of 2001.