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Crested Butte Mountain Resort

8 / 100 Powder Score
Thin Weather Clear
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Snow 48h
0cm
Next 72h
0cm

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 →

Snow 24h
0 cm
Next 24h
0 cm
Temperature
3°C
Max wind
22 km/h
Elevation
2,783–3,488 m
Across
5.9 km

Updated: 10 Nov 2026, 12:15

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 ↗

7-day outlook

Date Weather Snow (cm) Low / high (°C) Wind (km/h)
Mon 9 Nov Clear 0 −2 to 9 9
Tue 10 Nov Cloudy 0 −1 to 7 22
Wed 11 Nov Clear 0 −2 to 8 12
Thu 12 Nov Clear 0 0 to 9 6
Fri 13 Nov Cloudy 0 −1 to 7 6
Sat 14 Nov Snow 1 −3 to 4 13
Sun 15 Nov Snow showers 1 −6 to −1 10

Score breakdown

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

The five add up to the 100-point Powder Score: more fresh snow, more on the way and colder air all push it up. How we measure

Crested Butte Mountain Resort, in United States, runs from 2,783 m at the base to 3,488 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 5.9 km across, with 93 marked runs and 15 lifts (about 56 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 240 cm of snowfall a season, 800th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 57th in the United States. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2022/23 (382 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2014/15 (131 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (64 and 53 cm on average).

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
93
Run length
56km
Lifts
15
Vertical
706m
Top 3,488 m · base 2,783 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvanced 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 map2.0 km
Steepest pitch38°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.1°

Which way the slopes face

North 49%
East 14%
South 6%
West 30%

63% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east; plenty of the terrain faces the sun as well, so the lean is modest.

By difficulty

Easy 23 · 17.5 km
Intermediate 48 · 29.1 km
Advanced 22 · 9.3 km

Lift types

  • Chairlift10
  • Magic carpet3
  • T-bar2

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.

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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

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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
240cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
131cm
The middle winter of the 12: 213 cm. The best: 382 cm.
World rank
800
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
57
of 534 in United States
Elevation rank
16
Highest to lowest, of 534 in United States. The centre point sits at 3,143 m, 2,615 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
Aspen Highlands29.0 km194 cm1201
Aspen Mountain32.0 km194 cm1201
Buttermilk34.0 km185 cm1281
Aspen Snowmass35.0 km172 cm1401
Cranor Hill Municipal Ski Hill35.0 km82 cm2562

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 65 cm, more than the median of 30 cm.

64cm
Dec
53cm
Jan
58cm
Feb
65cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 240 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 131 cm; the biggest was 2022/23 with 382 cm (2.9 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.

131
174
348
173
311
222
203
315
382
276
160
183
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 ↗

Getting there

Get directions ↗ Open in Google Maps ↗

Other booking sites: Booking.com ↗ · Agoda ↗

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