Boyne Resorts is the third largest owner and operator of ski and golf resorts in the United States and is the longest running management team at nearly 60 years. The company employs over 7,000 fulltime and seasonal staff. It operates 13 resort properties - 10 ski resorts and 11 golf courses. The company, based in Boyne Falls, MI, owns and/or operates properties in the U.S. states of Michigan, Montana, Washington, Maine, New Hampshire, Tennessee, ...
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Boyne Resorts is the third largest owner and operator of ski and golf resorts in the United States and is the longest running management team at nearly 60 years. The company employs over 7,000 fulltime and seasonal staff. It operates 13 resort properties - 10 ski resorts and 11 golf courses. The company, based in Boyne Falls, MI, owns and/or operates properties in the U.S. states of Michigan, Montana, Washington, Maine, New Hampshire, Tennessee, and Utah, and the Canadian province of British Columbia.
Boyne Resorts was founded by Everett Kircher, Jim Christianson and John Norton in 1947, when a hill in Northern Michigan that was too steep and wooded to farm was sold to the co-founders for $1 by former State Senator Pierson. Then the co-founders bought a single chairlift used from Sun Valley as the Northern Michigan resort's first lift. This chairlift was the first chairlift ever built. It is still in service today but has been upgraded several times over its lifetime. In 1954, Boyne...
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