Winter sports enthusiasts travel by vehicle to Timberline Lodge these days, but they had another option in the 1950s: the Mt. Hood Skiway. Part ski lift, part flying bus — the Skiway was a 3.2-mile aerial tramway connecting Government Camp to Timberline Lodge that debuted in January 1951. But its two buses (each carried 36 passengers + guzzled seven gallons of fuel per 25-minute trip) weren’t the cash cows investors had hoped they’d be. The Skiway closed in 1956, but its path is still visible. The original lower terminal building is now Thunderhead Lodge.
