SPECIAL REPORT: Saving the Slopes - Northern Michigan's News Leader

SPECIAL REPORT: Saving the Slopes

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The Otsego Club opened in 1939, and today it's America's oldest private ski club with it's own facility.

Generations have gathered there with family and friends to stay, ski, and socialize.

Those winter time traditions were threatened last summer, but a group of people dedicated to preserving this piece of "up north" history was not going to let that happen.

Corey Adkins and Michelle Dunaway show us how they were able to save the slopes at the Otsego Club.

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