Its bowl-shaped slope in the Idaho Panhandle National Forest faced northeast and the vertical drop was just under 400 feet (120 m) on Dennis Mountain, accessed from State Highway 6, south of Emida and north of Harvard.

An "upside-down" ski area, the parking lot and lodge were at the top, less than a mile east of the highway, formerly designated as 95A (U.S. 95 Alternate).

With a day lodge built in the late 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) through the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the ski area was developed by the U.S. Forest Service,[1] and originally owned and operated by Washington State College[2] (Pullman is approximately fifty miles (80 km) southwest, about an hour by vehicle).

"[4] After a poor snow year in 1958, it was sold to a private owner, Fred Craner and his brother, Merle, and a platter lift was added in 1959.

[18] With an aging chairlift and inconsistent snowfall at a low elevation, alpine skiing was discontinued in the 1990s.