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Aspen Highlands

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Aspen Highlands is a ski area in United States. The terrain spans roughly 3122–3122 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 6.7 km². Within 2 km of the centre, the map shows 78 marked runs and 4 lifts, totalling about 48 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 161 cm of snowfall a season, 1439th (tied) of the 3,112 ski areas we measure worldwide. The model runs well below what resorts report, so the ranking is the meaningful part rather than the centimetre figure. 19 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

Snow 24h
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Snow 48h
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Next 24h
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Next 72h
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Temperature
9.5℃
Max wind
22.6km/h
Elevation (est.)
3122–3122m
Area
6.7km²

Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.

We do not show a snow depth here. The weather model we use reports snow lying on the ground — it knows nothing about grooming or snowmaking, and it is not the base depth a ski area publishes. In Japan we can check our figures against 234 weather stations. Outside Japan there is nothing to check them against, so we do not print a number we have not verified. Snow report on the official site ↗

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 6/10
Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
☁️ 26 Sept 0 3.2 / 13.4 18.2
☁️ 27 Sept 0 3.6 / 16.2 22.6
🌧️ 28 Sept 0 4.7 / 8.3 18.2
🌦️ 29 Sept 0 4.5 / 11.8 6.9
🌦️ 30 Sept 0 2.6 / 13.6 11.7
🌤️ 1 Oct 0 1.4 / 15.3 11
🌤️ 2 Oct 0 2.5 / 16.3 11.9

Runs and lifts

Counted from the runs and lifts drawn on OpenStreetMap, within the boundary of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Marked runs
76
Run length
43km
Lifts
6
Vertical
1,061m
Top 3,527 m · base 2,466 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvancedExpert Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

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The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.8 km
Steepest pitch44°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs16°

Which way the slopes face

North 55%
East 34%
South 2%
West 9%

89% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.

By difficulty

Easy 1
Intermediate 35
Advanced 20
Expert 20

Lift types

  • Chairlift6

See past trail maps on Skimap.org ↗

Source: OpenSkiMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Vertical is the difference between the highest and lowest points of the mapped runs and lifts.

Live Cameras

This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.

Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.

Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com

How much snow it gets

Measured by us across 3,112 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
161 cm
per season
Range over three winters
67 cm
133–200 cm. The best winter was 1.5x the worst.
World rank
1439
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
149
of 541 in United States
Elevation rank
19
Highest to lowest, of 541 in United States. The centre point sits at 3,122 m, 2,588 m above the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. Ski areas a few kilometres apart share a weather grid cell and can return the same figure.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Aspen Mountain4.1 km161 cm1439
Buttermilk4.4 km158 cm1475
Aspen Snowmass9.6 km145 cm1639
Crested Butte Mountain Resort29 km206 cm1025
Crested Butte Nordic32 km164 cm1400

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 53 cm, more than the median of 30 cm.

52cm
Dec
42cm
Jan
48cm
Feb
53cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Map

Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.

Official piste map ↗

More places to look

Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28

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