Tamarack Resort
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 Tamarack Resort
Location in the western United States
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| Location | Valley County, Idaho, U.S. |
| Nearest city | Boise: 90 miles (145 km) |
| Coordinates | 44°40′16″N 116°07′23″W / 44.671°N 116.123°WCoordinates: 44°40′16″N 116°07′23″W / 44.671°N 116.123°W |
| Vertical | 2,760 ft (841 m) |
| Top elevation | 7,660 ft (2,335 m) |
| Base elevation | 4,900 ft (1,494 m) |
| Skiable area | 1,100 acres (4.5 km2) |
| Runs | 39 - 15% novice - 56% intermediate - 29% advanced |
| Lift system | 4 chairlifts - 2 hi-speed quad - 2 fixed quad 2 surface |
| Terrain parks | 2 |
| Snowfall | 300 in (760 cm) |
| Snowmaking | lower runs |
| Night skiing | none |
| Website | Tamarack Idaho.com |
Tamarack Resort is a four-season mountain resort in the northwest United States, in the Long Valley of west central Idaho. It is located on the west shore of Cascade Reservoir, southwest of Donnelly in Valley County, about 90 miles (145 km) north of Boise.
Opened for lift-served skiing in late 2004, the Resort went through foreclosure and emerged from it at a sheriff's sale on March 10, 2014. A court-appointed receiver, Douglas Wilson, closed the ski area in early March 2009, which was shuttered for the 2009–10 season. It re-opened in 2010 on December 20, with five of seven chairlifts, operated by the Tamarack Municipal Association (TMA). All major recreational and dining facilities have been restarted under TMA management, except the zip line tour which is operated by Experience Based Learning, Inc out of Rockford, IL, under the /dba/ Zip Tamarack.
One of the three high-speed chairlifts was removed in 2012.
Tamarack was the first new ski resort to be built in North America in 23 years (though not the first ski area); Beaver Creek in Colorado and Deer Valley in Utah opened within days of each other in 1981. (Deer Valley was not entirely new, as it was built at the former modest ski area of "Snow Park," which operated from 1946-69.)
The Tamarack Resort was first conceived as Valbois in the early 1980s, but unsuccessfully struggled to overcome federal regulatory hurdles and fierce local opposition, and finally folded in 1995. Despite local opposition, a new group of investors revived the project three years later with modifications and called it WestRock. After four years the name was changed to "Tamarack" in December 2002, after the tamarack larch, a deciduous coniferous tree, whose short, dark green fir-like needles turn yellow (and shed) every autumn.
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