Spirit Mountain’s New Chairlift Needs a Name—You Can Vote
Spirit Mountain, Minnesota is asking the community for help in naming its new chairlift. The four-person lift is set to replace the Summit and Gandy lifts this coming winter.
Those who contribute to the vote will be entered to win a free 2025-26 season pass to Spirit Mountain (if the winner already has one, they’ll be reimbursed). The vote closes on September 30, 2025.
Keep reading for the full list of potential names.
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The name options all honor Spirit Mountain’s rich logging, mining, and maritime history.
They are:
- Bolter
- Boom Tender
- Chopper
- Cutter
- Gandy Dancer
- Hasher
- High Rigger
- Highline
- Hoister
- Jack Line
- Jagger
- Roper
- Stinger
You can vote on Spirit Mountain’s new chairlift here.
“By voting, you’re becoming part of Spirit history and helping us write the next chapter of our mountain’s story!” Spirit Mountain wrote.
Located near Duluth, Minnesota, Spirit Mountain is home to a large terrain park and, during the summer, stays open for mountain biking.
Last winter, Spirit Mountain started the ski season on November 30, 2024.
It isn’t the first ski area to hold a naming contest.
Recently, Snowbird, Utah, held a vote for its new mid-mountain lodge, offering three name suggestions: Nest, Vitrea, and the Cube. The community settled on the Nest.
The suggestion approach used by Snowbird and Spirit Mountain—as opposed to letting people come up with entirely new names—makes sense. When you give the internet free rein, silly (and sometimes awful) results ensue.
For instance, below Spirit Mountain’s post about its chairlift naming vote, one commenter wrote, “Poop Chair.” We much prefer Stinger, Bolter, or High Rigger.
In another, more absurd example, a waste department in Austin, Texas, could have been named after Fred Durst—the frontman of the band Limp Bizkit—after an online vote went awry several years ago. We’ll admit it, though: Fred Durst Society of the Humanities and Arts has a nice ring to it.
Then, of course, there was the British research vessel that the public hoped would be named the R.R.S. Boaty McBoatface.
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