The Single Chair Project

MAKE A DONATION TO SAVE THE SINGLE!

“Mad River’s vintage technology is not the nation’s first ski-hill aid, but the single chair lift remains the last working link to a time when American downhill skiing was all sport and not money.”
--Preservation Magazine

Nowhere in Vermont can the mountains, invigorating climate and indomitable people be found in greater evidence than at Mad River Glen in Waitsfield, Vermont. This ski area, created in the earliest days of Vermont skiing, still attracts the energy and excitement that signals true lovers of the sport and the state.

And its icon is the Single Chair... nationally, the only remaining single chair lift that is still in its original location and still taking skiers to a mountaintop for a snowy launch.

Today, the Single needs work. It is tired and worn but no one wants to give it up. So the Mad River Glen Cooperative has partnered with the Preservation Trust of Vermont and the Stark Mountain Foundation to make sure the Single is preserved and used for decades to come. We are hoping hundreds who love Vermont, its history, its mountains and its skiing will join together to preserve the Single.

The Board of Directors of the Preservation Trust of Vermont has voted to act as a project sponsor for this one-of-a-kind preservation project in Vermont.  Over the next several years, the Trust will work with the Mad River Glen Cooperative to raise the necessary $1.6
million. The Preservation Trust will hold a covenant on the Single, ensuring that the lift will remain in good condition and operable for at least 50 years.For more information about the Single Chair Project, please visit Mad River Glen's website:

Mad River Glen: Save the Single Campaign

Click Here to make a donation to the Single Chair Project!

“I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys,
her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all,
because of her indomitable people.”
--Calvin Coolidge