Tikjda
An Algerian ski station in the Djurdjura range whose lifts were stripped and looted during the civil unrest of the 1990s and never replaced; skiing there is now entirely earn-your-turns.
- Region
- Bouira Province
- Country
- Algeria
- Status
- abandoned
- Year closed
- 1990s (ski lifts)
- Reason for closure
- The Algerian civil conflict of the 1990s. The mountains became dangerous, the station's ski lifts were stripped and looted, and the slopes fell silent for around a decade. The lifts were never rebuilt.
History
Tikjda lies at about 1,600 m in the Djurdjura range of northern Algeria, in Bouira Province, roughly 120 km east of Algiers and inside Djurdjura National Park. It was developed as one of Algeria's two ski stations alongside Chréa, drawing on a cedar-forested massif that holds snow reliably into spring. During the civil conflict of the 1990s the area became unsafe, the ski lifts were stripped and looted, and organised skiing stopped for about a decade. The lifts were never replaced, and Tikjda today operates as a mountain resort for hiking, climbing and backcountry skiing rather than as a lift-served ski area, with a growing local scene of skiers and snowboarders touring the slopes. The documentary record for the lift infrastructure is very thin - no source found gives the number, type, manufacturer or installation dates of the lifts that were destroyed, and those fields are deliberately left empty rather than guessed. The opening date of the station is likewise undocumented in accessible sources.
Lifts
| Name | Type | Manufacturer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed lift | The station's lifts were stripped and looted during the 1990s. The number, type and manufacturer of the original installations are not documented in any source found |
Sources and further reading
Location
36.4500, 4.1333