United States

Cherry Peak Ski Area

Off season
Official site

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Typical snowfall
185cm

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
1,764–2,132 m
Across
1.3 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 ↗

Cherry Peak Ski Area, in United States, runs from 1,764 m at the base to 2,132 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.3 km across, with 37 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 11 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 185 cm of snowfall a season, 1,281st (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 106th in the United States. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2016/17 (293 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2014/15 (106 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (50 and 48 cm on average).

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
185cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
106cm
The middle winter of the 12: 172 cm. The best: 293 cm.
World rank
1281
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
106
of 534 in United States
Elevation rank
134
Highest to lowest, of 534 in United States. The centre point sits at 1,930 m, 1,402 m above 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
Beaver Mountain18.0 km259 cm671

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
37
Run length
11km
Lifts
4
Vertical
368m
Top 2,132 m · base 1,764 m

Run map

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

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Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.4 km
Steepest pitch32°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs14.5°

Which way the slopes face

North 43%
East 5%
South 7%
West 46%

Only 48% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. The most common direction is west (46%).

By difficulty

Novice 1 · 0.2 km
Easy 12 · 4.4 km
Intermediate 13 · 3.4 km
Advanced 11 · 3.3 km

Lift types

  • Chairlift3
  • Magic carpet1

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 December. March brings 85% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in the United States (85%). In amount, March brings 41 cm, more than the median of 30 cm.

50cm
Dec
48cm
Jan
45cm
Feb
41cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 185 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 106 cm; the biggest was 2016/17 with 293 cm (2.8 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.

106
189
293
152
205
167
140
145
293
223
176
126
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.

Live cameras

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

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

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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