St. Paul

Mounds Park

Data | History | Hill records | Contact | Map | Comments

Mounds Park Ski Jump:

K-Point:	35 m
Hill record:	33.2 m (109 ft) (Anders Haugen , 1925-02-15)

Further jumps:	no
Plastic matting:	no
Year of construction:	1924
Year of destruction:	1939
Status:	destroyed
Ski club:	St. Paul Ski Club
Coordinates:	44.948105, -93.048576 ✔

to top

History:

The first ski jumping hill of St Paul was constructed at Mounds Park in 1924-25 and was patterned after the ski jump at Odnes in Norway. With its horizontal take-off, enormous drop height and abrupt transition into the landing area it was typical for its time. The opening competition was held on February 15, 1925 and Anders Haugen set up the first hill record of 109 feet (33.2 meters). The hill had been used until 1939 when it was destroyed by a wind storm in August.
As a replacement the 60 meter hill at Battle Creek was errected for St Paul Winter Carnival 1939 and afterwards even the national ski jumping championships of 1939 were held there. Winner of the honours class was World Champion Reidar Andersen from Norway with jumps on 193 and 197 ft (58.8 and 60.0 m). The hill had been used until 1970's and the last hill record was 197 feet (60 m) by Tim Denisson in 1971.
After that ski jumping activities of St Paul Ski Club shifted to Carver's Lake at South Maplewood, where a new 40 meter hill was set up in 1972 and named after the former ski jumper and functional Tom Harrington. Still today the four ski jumps K46, K30, K20 and K10 are used, with K46 and K20 even being covered with plastic mattings.

Information and photos:
St Paul Ski Club, MN Historical Society (stpaulskiclub.smugmug.com)

to top

Contact:

to top

Map:

to top

Comments:

Post comment:

1) Richard Baker wrote on 2018-08-02 at 04:00:

Mounds park ski jump

Went with Larry Fercello to site of ski jump in 2018
He confirmed where it was.
Larry is 93 years old and remembered going to watch as a teenager

to top

Token:
Name:
Email:
Title:
Post:	bold \| italics \| underline \| link

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Recent news:

Send us your ski jumping hill photos and information via email!

Latest updates:

St. Paul

Mounds Park

Data | History | Hill records | Contact | Map | Comments

Mounds Park Ski Jump:

History:

Contact:

Map:

Comments:

Social Bookmarks

Ski Jumping Hill Archive on Facebook:

Stay connected:

About us:

Partner: