History
The hill has been in operation since 1946 and is Canada's most southerly ski hill. It began as a single run on the southeasternmost section of the modern hill, accessed by a gravel road from Boler Road, just south of today's Gatineau Road. [3] The small ski club property expanded westward over the years, and the current chalet was built in 2017. The original Boler Road access was closed off around the same time to permit the building of a subdivision, and the entrance moved to the newly extended Griffith Street where it met the original road.
Boler Mountain was served by three T-bar lifts throughout the 1970s and 80s, the westernmost of which was replaced by a quad-chairlift in the early 1990s. The other two T-bar lifts were replaced by a single quad-chairlift in 2003. A fourth T-bar lift had been partially constructed in the early 1980s on a then-newly acquired area of land immediately west of the chalet that came to be known as Hill 2000. The lift never was completed, and was mostly dismantled in 1997. A tubing hill was added at the base of Hill 2000 in January 1998. Work on Hill 2000, later renamed West Hill, progressed slowly from 1978 to final completion in February 2012. Boler officials attribute the delay to the need to wait for donated loads of dirt from construction elsewhere in the city. [1] West Hill includes a quad chairlift and, at 67 metres (220 ft), is now the tallest point in London. [4]
The summer venue was home to the 2001 Canada Summer Games mountain biking event. [5]
Boler Mountain added the Treetop Adventure Park complete with zip lines and aerial challenges in 2013. [3]
It also hosted the Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race in early 2014. [6]
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