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Giants Ridge Resort

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Giants Ridge Resort is a ski area in United States. The terrain spans roughly 534–534 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 6.7 km². Within 3.6 km of the centre, the map shows 37 marked runs and 8 lifts, totalling about 11 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 61 cm of snowfall a season, 2694th (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. 6 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

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Snow 48h
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Next 24h
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Next 72h
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Temperature
14.3℃
Max wind
16.6km/h
Elevation (est.)
534–534m
Area
6.7km²

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. Snow report on the official site ↗

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 9.7 / 18.3 19.2
☁️ 27 Sept 0 12.3 / 19.9 16.6
🌫️ 28 Sept 0 8.6 / 20.8 16.8
🌦️ 29 Sept 0 13.6 / 17 20
🌫️ 30 Sept 0 11.8 / 23.7 21.4
☀️ 1 Oct 0 5.3 / 15.4 19
☁️ 2 Oct 0 1.8 / 15.7 16.4

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
39
Run length
12km
Lifts
8
Vertical
131m
Top 562 m · base 431 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 map0.9 km
Steepest pitch27°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.7°

Which way the slopes face

North 44%
East 51%
South 0%
West 5%

95% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.

By difficulty

Novice 4
Easy 10
Intermediate 17
Advanced 8

Lift types

  • Chairlift5
  • Magic carpet2
  • Rope tow1

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
61 cm
per season
Range over three winters
15 cm
54–69 cm. Steadier from winter to winter than most.
World rank
2694
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
468
of 541 in United States
Elevation rank
271
Highest to lowest, of 541 in United States. The centre point sits at 534 m, level with the national median of 534 m.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 20 cm, less than the median of 30 cm.

26cm
Dec
16cm
Jan
16cm
Feb
20cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Map

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

Official piste map ↗

More places to look

Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28

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