United States

Granite Peak Ski Area

Off season

No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear once snow is on the ground or forecast.

Typical snowfall
85cm

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
372–573 m
Across
2.5 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.

Granite Peak Ski Area, in United States, runs from 372 m at the base to 573 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 2.5 km across, with 52 marked runs and 7 lifts (about 20 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 85 cm of snowfall a season, 2,528th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 417th in the United States. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2018/19 (119 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2023/24 (50 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (23 and 20 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
85cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
50cm
The middle winter of the 12: 87 cm. The best: 119 cm.
World rank
2528
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
417
of 534 in United States
Elevation rank
324
Highest to lowest, of 534 in United States. The centre point sits at 427 m, 101 m below 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
Prohaska Family Memorial Park13.0 km84 cm2539

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
52
Run length
20km
Lifts
7
Vertical
201m
Top 573 m · base 372 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvancedExpertOther 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 map1.0 km
Steepest pitch26°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.3°

Which way the slopes face

North 89%
East 11%
South 0%
West 0%

100% 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

Easy 9 · 3.8 km
Intermediate 17 · 6.7 km
Advanced 22 · 8.1 km
Expert 1 · 0.3 km
Other 3 · 0.7 km

Lift types

  • Chairlift5
  • Magic carpet2

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 as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 21 cm, less than the median of 30 cm.

23cm
Dec
20cm
Jan
21cm
Feb
21cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 85 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2023/24 with 50 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 119 cm (2.4 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.

57
87
97
81
119
97
52
87
118
50
65
104
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.

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