For almost six decades, it’s been one of the biggest mysteries in Livingston County: What’s REALLY underneath Mt. Brighton?
The various owners of the ski resort in Genoa Township have always maintained that it’s nothing but good, old dirt, but others who were around when the ski hill opened have claimed that it’s either built on a landfill or thousands of old tires.
So, what’s the REAL story?
We found the answer in this story in the Jan. 31, 1962, article in the Livingston County Press – the first mention we could find in the newspaper of Mt. Brighton’s existence.
We’ve got the dirt, and the truth is … it’s dirt.
So there you have it. You’ve not skiing on tires and garbage. It’s all just dirt.
my school bus route wemt by there everyday when I was a kid the little hill was there there built was built out of crush scrap cars and dirt took almost 2 years to built it
It was my understanding that the hill was constructed with the spoils from digging out sections of the Lodge freeway.
I lived in my Brighton sub and as a child, I watched them build risky ( biggest hill, or back side of it) there was tires!
Underneath all that “earth” is the landfill…
This is interesting history. What would be even more interesting would be to see pretunnel photos of the river that is now tunneled under the city that flows from the Milpond.
Ask the Herbst family. It is my understanding they owned the land before it became Mt. Brighton.