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Published December 17, 2009, 12:00 AM

Badlands Sno-Park celebrates 40th Anniversary


Sophie Draves, left, and Molly Hoopingarner, both from Prescott, enjoy tubing down a hill at Badlands Sno-Park on Sunday afternoon. Photo by Margaret A. Ontl

  • Sophie Draves, left, and Molly Hoopingarner, both from Prescott, enjoy tubing down a hill at Badlands Sno-Park on Sunday afternoon. Photo by Margaret A. Ontl
  • Four generations of the Kinney family are still active in the operation of Badlands Recreation. From the left are Maggie Hall (Kinney), the matriarch of the family Peggy Kinney, grandchildren Henry, Katie and Molly Kinney and their dad Patrick Kinney. Pat’s wife Jill is also instrumental in the day-to-day operations.
  • Peggy Kinney helps out occasionally in the chalet. She remembers her husband Bernard coming home with an idea for tubing after he attended and National Farmer’s Organization conference in Northern Wisconsin in the late ‘60s.
  • Patrick Kinney remembers well the days before the family invested in the snow grooming machine he is pictured with. Grooming used to be done by hand with rakes, shovels and snowmobiles.
  • Peggy and Bernard Kinney had a booth at Snow-World 1975 at the Minneapolis Auditorium. Submitted photo
  • The Kinney family posed for this photo at Badlands in 1992. In the front from the left are Katie (Ahrens), Peggy and Bernard Kinney, Maggie (Hall) and Frances (Damian). In the middle are Bridgette (Preston), Jackie (Roberts) and Ann (Klein). In the back row are Betsy (Ravenello), Greg, Pat, Bob Kinney and Patsy (Bevers). All eleven of the Kinney children worked at Badlands during their youth. The operation is now run by Patrick and Maggie.
  • Peggy and Bernard Kinney had a booth at Snow-World 1975 at the Minneapolis Auditorium. Submitted photo