On Feb. 3, 1966, The Cass City Chronicle printed the 1966 AAA Guide to Winter Sports Fun in Michigan. It listed Indian Hills with 2 ski runs, rope tows, 2 toboggan runs with special toboggans and a return conveyor furnished. (If a skier poached a ride on the conveyor, would that have made it the FIRST magic carpet lift in Michigan?) This guide does not print locations or addresses for the areas. The map shows it somewhere on the near west side of Grand Rapids, south of I-96.
Karen Voike was kind enough to send me a link to the obituary of Charles Beale Jr. the founder of Indian Hills Ski, Toboggan, Archery and Sports Park. He died in 2008 at the age of 82. The obituary states that the park was at Richmond Park on the west side of Grand Rapids.
If you have any information about skiing at Indian Hills, please post it here in a comment or send it to us via the directions on the About MILSAP page.
