Max Mejia walks daughter Itzayana up the sledding hill at Eastern Prom after a final run for the day.

Margaret Towne, 16, of Berlin, New Hampshire, sails down the ski jump at Portland's Western Promenade during the Winter Carnival of 1924.

Erin Witham cross-country skis on the Eastern Prom. The spot was the location for winter carnivals held there in the 1920s and 30s and in the 1950s the snow-covered hill overlooking Casco Bay was covered with sleds.

Playground equipment peeks over the top of the Eastern Promenade sled hill as Luke Emery, 5, prepares for another run.

Powdery snow flows around Emerson Dolan as his step-father John Hart gives him a push down the sledding hill on the Eastern Prom.

A ski jumper soars off the wooden structure built for the 1924 Winter Carnival in Portland at the Western Promenade. More than 5,000 spectators came to watch the event.

Zola Bloom, left, and Stella Halstead zoom past trees on the edge of the sledding hill on the Eastern Prom. Through the last century the hills of the Eastern Prom - which is on the National Register of Historic Places - often have been passed up for other winter-fun locations in Portland.