They were destined, once upon a time, for a stunning alpine-style resort tucked deep in California’s Sequoia National Park. For almost two decades, Disney’s Mineral King Ski Resort was the ...

Disney's Mineral King Ski Resort was never built, but it did inspire another iconic Disney attraction. In the 1960s, Disney ...

Oh, yes. I know. The Mineral King Ski Resort is one of those never-built projects that have become legend among Disney fans. In the 1960s, Walt Disney fell in love with building a Swiss-style town ...

That’s how long it’s been since Walt Disney proposed building a massive ski resort at Mineral King, a gorgeous mountain valley in California’s Sierra Nevada bordered on three sides by ...

One chapter in the Disney story is much less commonly known today, however. Walt Disney once planned to create a premiere ski resort in Mineral King valley in central California. When Disney announced ...

Published on July 6, Daniel P. Selmi’s “Dawn at Mineral King Valley” tells the whole story of Disney’s efforts to develop a ski resort in the Sierra Nevada mountains, and the Sierra Club’s efforts to ...

In 1965, when Walt Disney — yes, that Walt Disney — proposed to build a ski resort as big as Sun Valley at Mineral King, the Sierra Club vowed to stop him. Major forces lined up in support of ...

After a hair-raising ride to the Sequoia park community, weary visitors encounter a breathtaking valley ringed by 11,000-foot peaks.

The book is about Disney’s attempts to build a pair of ski resorts in California at Mineral King and Independence Lake, neither of which were successful. The authors — Colorado residents Greg Glasgow ...

(Courtesy of Disney) Walt Disney had just announced plans to build what would become Disney World in Florida when he unveiled a proposal for Disney’s Mineral King ski resort anchored by an early ...