United States

Big Snow American Dream

Off season
Official site

No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear once snow is on the ground or forecast.

Typical snowfall
60cm

A weather-model figure, worked out the same way for every ski area, and lower than what actually falls. Use it to compare ski areas, not against the resort’s own totals. How we measure →

Elevation
3–4 m
Across
0.3 km

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 ↗

Big Snow American Dream, in United States, runs from 3 m at the base to 4 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 0.3 km across, with 4 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 0.4 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 60 cm of snowfall a season, 2,746th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 498th in the United States. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (98 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2022/23 (29 cm). March still brings 16 cm on average, close to February, its snowiest month.

How much snow it gets

Modelled from weather data the same way at all 3,069 ski areas we cover. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
60cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
29cm
The middle winter of the 12: 53 cm. The best: 98 cm.
World rank
2746
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
498
of 534 in United States
Elevation rank
532
Highest to lowest, of 534 in United States. The centre point sits at 11 m, 517 m below the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km in a straight line. Ski areas in the same weather-model cell (about 30 km across) get the same figure.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Campgaw Mountain Ski Area30.0 km73 cm2638

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
4
Run length
0.4km
Lifts
4
Vertical
1m
Top 4 m · base 3 m

Run map

EasyIntermediate Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.Lifts that run far beyond the ski area are cut at the edge of the map.
Run map

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Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map0.1 km
Average gradient of the runs0.2°

By difficulty

Easy 2 · 0.1 km
Intermediate 1 · 0.1 km
Advanced 1 · 0.2 km

Lift types

  • Magic carpet2
  • Drag lift1
  • Chairlift1

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.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in February. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 16 cm, less than the median of 30 cm.

8cm
Dec
16cm
Jan
19cm
Feb
16cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 60 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2022/23 with 29 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 98 cm (3.4 times as much). For 33% of the 534 ski areas in the United States the leanest winter was 2015/16; here it was a different one.

90
55
72
98
50
31
86
48
29
39
34
83
14/1515/1616/1717/1818/1919/2020/2121/2222/2323/2424/2525/26

Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.

Map

The weather map, and where it sits among nearby ski areas.

Official piste map ↗

Other booking sites: Booking.com ↗ · Agoda ↗

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