Just three months after Mountain Capital Partners purchased Lee Canyon, Skytrac is already working to build a new lift to the east of existing terrain. The fixed grip quad, shown as Chair 5 on the above map, will service three new beginner trails with a capacity of 1,800 skiers per hour. The chairlift will span approximately 1,400 feet with a 310 foot vertical rise. The Forest Service approved the project last year when the resort was still owned by Powdr.
The project has not been formally announced but Skytrac posted photos on Instagram yesterday of its ninth and final line survey of the year at an unnamed mountain that looks a whole lot like Lee Canyon. Aerial imagery from the Sentinel satellite network taken this morning confirms the scope of work at Lee Canyon, the only ski resort in the Las Vegas region.
In addition to Chair 5, Lee Canyon also has Forest Service approval to build two new conveyors and a westward expansion with another fixed grip quad in the coming years.
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Skytrac did tag the actual Lee Canyon ski area page as the location on their post, so about as official as unofficial can be.
And a solid move, hopefully with MCP’s masterful snowmaking skills and a new beginner pod, Lee can become a worthwhile place for Vegas to learn to ski. Plus a power pass will work at semi-local Brian Head, so they have the perfect motivation to build a true feeder mtn.
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Where’s Lift 7?
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I was wondering about that, I skied those trails in February, it looked like it was ready for a lift. Good to see MCP invest an expansion, I hope some of the other areas see some love (replace old workhorse lifts or add a little snow-making in those southern resorts)
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