Mount Pisgah is the mountain that is known by many as Mount Snow and was originally named after the Biblical Mount Pisgah. A large amount of land on Mount Pisgah was purchased from the estate of Reuben Snow, in early 1953 and on December 12, 1954, the mountain, renamed Mount Snow, after the Snow family, opened to the public. Entrepreneur and dreamer Walt Schoenknecht owned the ski resort for many years and led its development into one of the largest ski areas in the country at the time.