New Hampshire’s Loon Mountain has made it official: a pulse gondola will join the lift fleet in 2025. The connector lift will cross the Pemigewasset River, linking RiverWalk at Loon Mountain in the town of Lincoln to Escape Route parking lot B, the Timbertown Quad and future South Peak Village. Doppelmayr USA will build the 1,300 foot machine, which will become the first pulse gondola in New England. Pulse gondolas are fixed grip lifts with pods of cabins that slow down for loading and unloading. Loon’s pulse will be configured four groupings of three cabins each. The 12 Omega IV cabin will hold up to eight riders and include floor-to-ceiling windows for views of the White Mountains.
With the South Peak expansion, Loon Mountain has nearly doubled the size of its lift fleet over the past 18 years. “Innovation and access are areas we continue to focus on,” said Brian Norton, Loon’s president and general manager. “This lift has been long dreamt of—dating back to the late ‘80s—and would not be possible without collaboration with RiverWalk and South Peak resorts,” Norton noted.
Construction on the gondola is expected to begin in spring 2025 and the lift will open for the 2025-26 winter season. Hours of operation and whether the gondola will be free or paid will be determined closer to opening.
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Funny that this pulse gondola will have more riders per cabin then their main summit gondola.
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Their main summit gondola when upgraded form their old PHB-Hall was shoehorned into the original bottom terminal which was in the middle of the lodge. Upgrading at that time — or now — to an 8 person gondola would require heavy modifications to the lodge.
While not specified in the article, based on Snowmass’s SkyCab this pulse will probably have a capacity of 440 pph. Loon’s summit gondola is 1000 pph.
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It appears that this Pulse Gondola which was announced in April 2024 as being ready for the 25-26 ski season has been silently delayed. There is no current construction being done. No mention of a delay on the Loon or Riverwalk websites. I see that it has now been listed on this website under “New Lifts” for 2026.
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On a NESJ podcast this past spring the Loon rep mentioned that since this lift did not impact skiing (the way a normal lift construction would), that it would probably start later in the year and not be completed till mid-winter. So the ‘2026’ designation makes sense from that aspect. I don’t know if there has been anything since then to push it out further…..
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Based on the provided image, this gondola’s going all the way to Lake Willoughby. Ambitious cross-state routing. /s
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Boyne honestly should replace the regular gondola first before they build this one. Both the Kancamagus 8 and this new pulse gondola put the White Mountain Express to shame.
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I’m sure Riverwalk and Southpeak are putting up a significant chunk of the money for this since it benefits them in particular.
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here’s hoping they replace the gondola soon
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Has construction begun yet?
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No and sounds like it won’t this year.
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Thank you! Out of curiosity, where did you hear this tidbit?
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Over Memorial Day weekend one of the Loon managers told me that construction was planned for winter ‘26, enabling Doppelmayr to better utilize its construction crews (who are typically more busy in the summer/fall and less busy in winter). Regardless of when it’s built, this lift will be mostly a lift to nowhere until the potential South Peak village gets constructed with more lifts in addition to Timbertown, consistent with Loon’s new expansion plans that were shared privately last winter (https://unofficialnetworks.com/2025/03/08/loon-mountain-lincoln-expansion).
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