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Big Boulder Ski Resort Area

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Big Boulder Ski Resort Area is a ski area in United States. It sits at about 563 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.5 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 37 marked runs and 7 lifts, totalling about 22 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 73 cm of snowfall a season, 2536th (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. 20 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

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Snow 48h
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Temperature
11.9℃
Max wind
31.2km/h
Elevation
563m
Area
1.5km²

Elevation of the ski area’s centre point, taken from a digital elevation model. It is not the base-to-summit range.

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 3/10
Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
🌧️ 26 Sept 0 11 / 14.8 31.6
🌧️ 27 Sept 0 11.1 / 13.7 31.2
🌧️ 28 Sept 0 11.3 / 13.3 19.7
☁️ 29 Sept 0 11.2 / 15.7 12.9
☁️ 30 Sept 0 10.3 / 20.8 9.6
🌦️ 1 Oct 0 14.6 / 23.5 15.4
🌦️ 2 Oct 0 9.8 / 18.4 19.2

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
18
Run length
6.4km
Lifts
7
Vertical
113m
Top 663 m · base 550 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvanced 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 map0.7 km
Steepest pitch20°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.4°

Which way the slopes face

North 90%
East 8%
South 0%
West 2%

98% 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

Novice 1
Easy 5
Intermediate 5
Advanced 7

Lift types

  • Chairlift4
  • Magic carpet3

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.

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
73 cm
per season
Range over three winters
50 cm
47–97 cm. The best winter was 2.1x the worst — a wide swing by our figures.
World rank
2536
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
411
of 541 in United States
Elevation rank
261
Highest to lowest, of 541 in United States. The centre point sits at 563 m, 29 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
Jack Frost Mountain Resort8.1 km77 cm2494
Locust Lake Village Ski Hill11 km80 cm2458
Camelback Mountain Resort21 km73 cm2536
Blue Mountain Resort27 km59 cm2715
Montage Mountain Ski Area34 km69 cm2590

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 83% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in the United States (85%). In amount, March brings 20 cm, less than the median of 30 cm.

17cm
Dec
24cm
Jan
24cm
Feb
20cm
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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