Still Going DownhillShowdown Montana · since 1936

Ninety years, and still going downhill

Kings Hill opened in the Little Belts in 1936 and never stopped. This is everything the archive holds — the photographs, the people who sent them in, the passes they kept, and a game about the hill itself.

  
The morning check

Kings Hill · 7,900 ft

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reading the forecast… 


This is a forecast, not a snow report. Nobody here measures the hill — for what is actually on the ground, and whether the lifts are turning, go to Showdown.

From the archive

On this day at Kings Hill

looking…

Where to go


four ways in
2,210 photographsThe Photographs

Search the whole archive by name, year, run or event — 1936 to now, oldest first. Everything the family, the club and the mountain kept.

Search the archive
The season-pass contest90 Passes

Who kept the most old Showdown and Kings Hill season passes? The leaderboard, every card photographed, ranked by the number of distinct seasons.

See the leaderboard
Everyone who sent something inThe Peoples Page

Every person who has sent a photograph or a story to the project, each with their own page — what they sent, and everything they wrote about it in their own words.

Meet the people
Race Stan King down the hillThe Video Game

A side-scrolling run down the mountain, drawn out of the archive: the real runs, the real lifts, and the people who worked them. Plays in the browser, phone or desktop.

Play it