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Discovery Ski Area

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Discovery Ski Area is a ski area in United States. The terrain spans roughly 2454–2454 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 6.5 km². Within 3.6 km of the centre, the map shows 69 marked runs and 8 lifts, totalling about 48 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 200 cm of snowfall a season, 1085th (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. 4 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
3.2℃
Max wind
24.4km/h
Elevation (est.)
2454–2454m
Area
6.5km²

Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.

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 6/10
Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
☁️ 26 Sept 0 -2 / 4.7 28.1
🌦️ 27 Sept 0 -0.3 / 10.9 20.9
☁️ 28 Sept 0 1.2 / 11.8 17.2
☁️ 29 Sept 0 0.3 / 12.8 20.9
☁️ 30 Sept 0 3 / 14.5 16.2
☁️ 1 Oct 0 4.3 / 18.5 13.5
☁️ 2 Oct 0 2.7 / 13.2 18.5

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
50
Run length
41km
Lifts
8
Vertical
743m
Top 2,486 m · base 1,743 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 map2.0 km
Steepest pitch30°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs11.8°

Which way the slopes face

North 34%
East 11%
South 25%
West 30%

Only 45% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Novice 2
Easy 9
Intermediate 22
Advanced 17

Lift types

  • Chairlift7
  • 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.

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
200 cm
per season
Range over three winters
93 cm
155–248 cm. The best winter was 1.6x the worst.
World rank
1085
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
82
of 541 in United States
Elevation rank
83
Highest to lowest, of 541 in United States. The centre point sits at 2,454 m, 1,920 m above the national median.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in February. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 47 cm, more than the median of 30 cm.

50cm
Dec
37cm
Jan
58cm
Feb
47cm
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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