Windham Mountain is turning into a private club by restricting the sale of day ski passes and announcing a resort master plan that calls for construction of luxury homes over existing parking lots. There are plans to build a gatehouse at the entrance to Mountain. The bike park is closing.

Visits to Windham will decline. In the beginning, shorter lift lines and some improved amenities might seem nice, but there will be negative long-term effects: Restaurants and hotels will fail. The race team will not have viable athletes, parents and coaches. The Adaptive Sports Foundation and SHRED Foundation will eventually go away, and Windham will become an enclave for just a few wealthy downstate families.

This is a bad plan for everyone. Ironically, Windham was once a private club limited to 800 members. It filed for bankruptcy in 1979. The private ski club model didn’t work then and won’t work now.

We call on Windham’s town leaders and the Greene County Legislature to push back on these plans. Save the Windham community!