Skiers prepared to take to the slopes at Ski Butler in the General Butler State Resort Park on the first weekend of skiing, Jan. 12, 1985. The park, in Carroll County near Carrollton, the county seat, once operated as Kentucky’s first and only ski resort. It opened in 1982 but was forced to shut down in the mid-’90s because of difficulty maintaining snow and other problems. Photo by Charles Bertram | Staff