The Kodiak Ski Lake is private. Membership, at $3,500 a year, includes use of the state-of-the-art ski boat and modest facilities, plus a one hour and 50 minute session per week. Open from 7 a.m. to ...

Water ski. The 67-year-old would know. Nearly every day, he skims over the water in a private water-skiing lake in Yacolt. Water skiing is an adrenalin junkie’s sport, he said.

Residents at Last Chance Lakes near Vernon christened the lakes with their first runs in 2008, and Bear Hollow Lakes opened for private skiing in 2009.

The first lake built specifically for water skiing was in Barstow, California, almost half a century ago, according to Alsbury, and there are now many, not only in warmer climates like California ...

Otter Tail Lake south of Three Forks was also built to be a slalom ski lake, but does not include a housing development. There was also a private water ski lake built near St. Ignatius, but Tanner ...

There are even more private lakes that are primarily used to host water skiing and wakeboarding competitions.

Gallatin County commissioners delayed a decision on a proposed upscale subdivision planned around a private water-skiing lake south of Belgrade.