1957
Dorie and Nub Sarns first view the hill that will become Nub's Nob from a neighboring
vantage point.

1957
Tree cutting, lodge building and chairlift installing begin on the property.

1958

It finally snows and Nub's Nob opens to skiers around the first of the year. A one-day weekend lift ticket for the chairlift is $5. Season Passes are $20 for individuals, $50 for families.  There are 3 slopes and a 65 seat chairlift.

1959
Old Smokey, Scarface, The Chute, NW Passage (now Sno Pro) and The Valley are
added. Juilleret's Restaurant becomes the in-lodge eatery.

1960
The Pomalift is added in Dories Bowl. There is a full size Olympic swimming pool and a
bunkhouse for male guests added. A weekend one day lift ticket is $5.

1961
A second double chairlift is opened to the summit. Slope totals are now over 10 and
the rope tow area is doubled in size.

1964

"Crazy Otto" slope opens and is named after long time maintenance man and groomer Otto Washburn.

1969
The front slopes of Nub's Nob are now nearly complete as you see them today. The Dorie's Double Chair replaces the Poma lift which is moved across the resort to "Mr. Charlie".

1970

A new Pomalift was installed on the west side of Mr. Charlie.

1972
"Crazy Otto" drives the snowcat, Wanda Davert works in the office while Dorie Sarns runs the resort with her big dogs by her side.

1974
Jack Frank and friends start The Ski Academy.

1977
The Pleasantview Ski Corp. (Walter and Alfred Fisher) purchase the area from Dorie Sarns.

1977
Legendary snowmaker Jim Dilworth joins Nub's Nob as General Manager. Jim Bartlett joins Jim as Area Manager.  The area has 14 slopes, 15 air/water duckbill snowguns and 4 chairlifts.

1978
16 slopes and 4 chairlifts greet skiers.  Research and development of the Nub's Nob snowmaking gun begins.

1979
Nub's Nob South and the Orange chairlift open. 5 runs are added. Adult daily lift tickets are $13.  Research and development of the Nub's Nob snowmaking gun continues.

1981
There are now 21 slopes and 5 chairlifts. A ski school one hour private lesson is $20.  Research and development of the Nub's Nob snowmaking gun continues

1985

Nub's Nob awarded a patent for the invention of the Nub's Nob snowmaking gun.  10 guns are now in use on the slopes.

1987
Northwest Passage gets bulldozed to create Sno Pro named for the late Jim Dilworth. Stepping into Dilly's big shoes, Jim Bartlett is named General Manager.  The lodge has a big lobby expansion and 4 more patented Nub's Nob snow guns go to work.

1989
The old yellow double chair comes down and up goes the yellow triple seat chairlift.
Moved from between Scarface and Chute, the new yellow speeds skiers up the hill between Chute and the Twilight Zone. Chute gets 8 new powerful tower snow guns. A new groomer is added to the fleet. For growing families the nursery is doubled in size.

1990
The old restaurant gives way to a huge new Cafeteria. 10 more snowguns sprout on the
hill and the rental area expands.

1991
Another new chairlift as the Brown triple chair climbs Nub's Nob South! The Bayview and
Dogleg slopes open. 11 Nub's Nob snow guns are added to the arsenal.

1992
The Big Time beginners area debuts with it's own handle tow. 28 snow guns are built by
the crew, the largest snowmaking expansion to date. The new entrance road with it's
rock and beam sign brings customers to a greatly expanded parking area. Weekend and
holiday one day tickets are now $34 for adults.

1993
Nub's Nob is voted "Midwest's Best Snow" for the very first time (we've owned the title
since). The old Dories Blue double chairlift is replaced by today's big Red 4 passenger
beauty. While the crew is putting up the Red Chair they completely rebuild the Revelry and Dories Bowl slopes.

1995
The first tree covered "gladed" slope in Michigan opens on Nub's Nob South, the
Southern Comfort Glade. The new locker room debuts just one step off "The Midwest's Best Snow" at the base of Big Time. The first steps are taken for Pintail Peak as Nub's Nob swaps land with the State of Michigan. The former State property touches Nub's Nob South and work begins in earnest for a huge expansion.

1996
The big Green quad chairlift gets a facelift with all new chairs. Another new groomer
lands in the hand's of the best snow crew anywhere. 6 more snow guns come out of
garage and the Southern Comfort Glade is expanded. The chainsaws begin logging out
Pintail Peak.

1997
It will be heralded by the winter press as "Michigan's best trail expansion in 10 years".
Pintail Peak opens with it's Black quad chair and 12 slopes. 15 more snow guns insure that Pintail will be covered with more of the "Midwest's Best". Snowboarders watch a total
reshaping of the halfpipe. Both the locker room and the adjoining parking area expand.

1998
40 years of family fun are celebrated with the anniversary opening of the new slope Big 4-0. Nub's Nob South also adds night skiing expanding evening offerings by almost double. The "Pipe Dragon" halfpipe groomer shows up and carves the snow into perfect walls in the Terrain Park.

1999
The Rental building expands to it's current size. The little kids let the crew open their secret runs Foo Land & Foo Foo Land. The runs have been named by young ski school students.

2000
Another first, a double black diamond slope opens. It's The Powerline Glade. 12 more snow guns means we've added 28 guns in just 3 seasons!

2001
15 more snow guns are built.

2002
The Orange lift gets a facelift and another 20 snowguns are added to the fleet.

2003
New Pintail Peak Warming House opens! The locker room and parking lot are both
expanded again. 2 dozen more patented snow guns are installed.

2004
Lookout X Games, the first Superpipe in the Midwest is sculpted from the woods near the
top of Big Time. This monster halfpipe is world class in size and pitch and raises the
performance bar for snowboarders and twin tip freestyle skiers. Slopes now total 49 and
snowguns 223!

2005

3 more gladed runs open on our 3rd peak as the Tower Glades come on line.  Slopes now total 52.  Michigan's only Winch Cat slope groomer raises the snow quality bar another notch.  4 more patented Nub's Nob snowmaking guns are added to the fleet bring our total to 227.  Free wireless internet access is now available in the lobby.  The Detroit News readers poll once again votes Nub's "Michigan's Best Ski Resort."

2006

2 new gladed runs open as T4 joins its brothers on the Tower Glades and the woods south of Bayview are opened up.  Whitefish trail on Pintail Peak gets a major remodeling and a line of permanent snowguns on the north side opening up more stunning views of Little Traverse Bay.  15 more patented Nub's Nob snowmaking guns are added to the fleet bring our total to 242.  Our biggest award yet arrives with the 2007 Ski Magazine Reader Survey voting Nub's terrain park #1 and our slope grooming expertise #4 in all of North America.  This is the second time Nub's has won a national award and we remain the only midwest area to make the cut ever.

2007

Thanks to you and all our customers it's HAPPY 50th ANNIVERSARY as we celebrate 50 years of great snow and great times.  The improvements never stop as over the summer we added another gladed ski run in the Arena Glade area, expanded the Goose Bumps trail on Pintail Peak, built 8 more patented Nub's Nob Snowguns giving us a total of 250, added 2 new Pisten Bully grooming machines to the fleet, introduced new night skiing hours and the Freedom 4 hour ticket and completely replaced our rental equipment fleet with new skis from Rossignol and boots from Nordica.  Whew!