ASSOCIATED PRESS • September 14, 2022
Maine’s first ski mountain – created when the Civilian Conservation Corps carved a single trail in 1936 – is reverting to its original name, Pleasant Mountain. Shawnee Peak was a name chosen in 1988 by new owners who already operated Shawnee Mountain in Pennsylvania, which bears the name of a Native American tribe that was pushed west by settlers. Michigan-based Boyne Resorts bought Shawnee Peak last October. It also owns Sunday River and Sugarloaf resorts in Maine.