How do you get into Ski Lodge?
We have not confirmed it. Ski Lodge is in the directory because it an unmarked door, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
Drinks of the era
We have not seen this venue’s own list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Corpse Reviver No. 2, White Lady, and Twentieth Century are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Ski Lodge sits
Ski Lodge is in Las Vegas, Nevada, in Clark County, in the Southwest of the United States.
Our directory currently lists 19 speakeasies and hidden bars in Las Vegas. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Las Vegas.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Ski Lodge are Easy’s Cocktail Lounge, about 250 m away, The Blind Pig, about 550 m away, and The Cabinet of Curiosities, about 850 m away.
Nevada holds 28 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Nevada speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Nevada
Nevada came under national prohibition on 17 January 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment took effect and the Volstead Act defined an intoxicating beverage as anything above one half of one per cent alcohol — a threshold strict enough to close breweries that had expected to survive.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Nevada.
What the newspapers recorded in Las Vegas
Searching the Library of Congress run of Nevada newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Las Vegas:
- Las Vegas age, June 7, 1931 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Las Vegas age, April 7, 1932 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Las Vegas age, July 2, 1931 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Las Vegas age, April 14, 1932 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Ski Lodge by phone on (702) 534-3419, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 3708 Las Vegas Blvd The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas Level 2, Chelsea Tower, Las Vegas, NV 89109. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Ski Lodge we hold street address, telephone number, official website, and social accounts. We do not yet hold opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because the map tags on the record mark it a cocktail bar.
Two independent open datasets, OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps, both carry this venue at this location. Agreement between them is the strongest existence check we can make without visiting.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.