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Dave Wood Winter Recreation Area

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Dave Wood Winter Recreation Area is a ski area in United States. It sits at about 2,503 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 2.3 km². Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 81 cm of snowfall a season, 2444th (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. 15 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

Snow 24h
0cm
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 24h
0cm
Next 72h
0cm
Temperature
14.8℃
Max wind
18.4km/h
Elevation
2,503m
Area
2.3km²

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.

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 8/10
Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
☁️ 26 Sept 0 9.3 / 18.9 23.4
☁️ 27 Sept 0 10.6 / 20.8 24
🌦️ 28 Sept 0 7.7 / 14.1 25
🌦️ 29 Sept 0 7.2 / 16.1 13.7
🌦️ 30 Sept 0 6.9 / 17.5 21.1
☀️ 1 Oct 0 6.2 / 20.2 15
🌤️ 2 Oct 0 7.2 / 20.3 11.8

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
81 cm
per season
Range over three winters
45 cm
65–110 cm. The best winter was 1.7x the worst.
World rank
2444
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
389
of 541 in United States
Elevation rank
79
Highest to lowest, of 541 in United States. The centre point sits at 2,503 m, 1,969 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
Top of the Pines27 km106 cm2098
Miller Mesa Nordic29 km126 cm1863
North Corridor Trail39 km142 cm1673
Telluride Ski Area45 km138 cm1719

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 32 cm, about the same as the median of 30 cm.

30cm
Dec
29cm
Jan
31cm
Feb
32cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Map

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

More places to look

Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28

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