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Welch Village
American ski area near Red Wing, Minnesota From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Welch Village is an American ski area near Red Wing, Minnesota. It was built by Leigh and Clem Nelson in 1965 and has grown considerably since then. It has a vertical elevation of approximately 360 feet (110 m). Its traditional opening time is around the third Saturday in November. It is located near the Cannon River Valley. The area offers both skiing and snowboarding and has beginner, intermediate and expert slopes. Ski instruction is available.
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It hosts the Welch Village Invitational, one of the largest High School Alpine Ski Meets in the US.
Welch Village has a large chalet with two cafeteria-style restaurants. Madd Jaxx bar serves alcohol near the triple lift on the east side of the resort. It has no lodging and is a day use venue.
There are eight chairlifts and four surface lifts at Welch Village: a Riblet Triple chairlift (1979), three Doppelmayr Quad chairlifts (2008/2010/2021), three Riblet Quad chairlifts (1989/1990/1999), a SkyTrac Quad chairlift (2025), two Magic Carpet surface lifts, a fixed rope tow, and a portable rope tow. Historically there were five Hall double chairlifts and two Hall T-Bar surface lifts replaced by modern ski lifts.[1]
In recent years, Welch Village has undergone a significant expansion and upgrades,[2] doubling its snow-making capacity and opening a new experts-only area served by a quad chairlift installed in the fall of 2008. Welch Village continues to invest in new infrastructure including a new terrain park area, and new beginner area with a SkyTrac Quad Chairlift in 2025.[3][4]
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