I was just looking at a before and after picture of some resort areas, and I’m puzzled.
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Along with what other people have said, climate change has impacted the area.
I grew up near there, went to college just north of there and still have friends in the area.
The weather has been disastrous for tourism for the last 20-25 years. There were a lot of very rainy summers and a lot of businesses couldn’t handle multiple bad years. As businesses close, people have less reason to go. Less people go, even more businesses can’t last.
And the winters have totally changed up here too. In the 80s they would put down a little fake snow once in a while. Then it was a bit more often and a bit more. Then the “seasons” for skiing and snowboarding started getting shorter. I have friends who said this was the last year they would do season passes because they just wasn’t enough snow/good weekends to go.
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