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Chester Bowl Park:

K-Point:	88 m
Tower height:	35 m
Status:	out of order

Year of construction:	1940
Conversions:	1971
Further jumps:	K35, K20, K10
Status:	operating
Plastic matting:	no
Ski club:	Duluth Nordic Ski Club

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History:

In Duluth, an industrial city in Minnesota, already in 1905 Duluth Ski Club was founded and first activities at Chester Bowl started. In 1940 the large 88 meter ski jumping hill was constructed, but today the inrun tower has already been removed.
The Little Chester K35 was officially inaugurated in winter 1971 with a new steel-inrun tower, which was already set up in 1969. The planning and construction phase of the project took over two and a half years and was leaded by ski jumping Olympic participant Jim Denney Sr., who pushed the realization forward with great efforts. Left of it there is K20, called “Rabbit Ears” and still further left K10, called “Bunny Ears”. Since the opening the Duluth Nordic Ski Club has been running this ski jumping facility and since 1971 there is a traditional youth competition called “Annual Lions Junior Invitational” every year in December.
In the past ski jumps at Old Maple Hill, Lincoln Park and Fond du Lac existed beside the five ski jumps at Chester Bowl Park.