United States

Gunstock Recreation Area

Off season

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

Typical snowfall
127cm

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
287–684 m
Across
5.0 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.

Gunstock Recreation Area, in United States, runs from 287 m at the base to 684 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 5.0 km across, with 73 marked runs and 6 lifts (about 26 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 127 cm of snowfall a season, 2,001st (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 293rd in the United States. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2022/23 (179 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (65 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 35 cm.

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
127cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
65cm
The middle winter of the 12: 125 cm. The best: 179 cm.
World rank
2001
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
293
of 534 in United States
Elevation rank
359
Highest to lowest, of 534 in United States. The centre point sits at 362 m, 166 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
Sewall Woods Conservation Area12.0 km129 cm1976
Abenaki Ski Area14.0 km129 cm1976
Veterans Memorial Ski Area28.0 km119 cm2097
Beaver Meadow XC Skiing35.0 km110 cm2236
Ragged Mountain Resort39.0 km130 cm1954

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
73
Run length
26km
Lifts
6
Vertical
397m
Top 684 m · base 287 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvancedOther 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 map1.4 km
Steepest pitch26°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.4°

Which way the slopes face

North 65%
East 32%
South 2%
West 2%

97% 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 1 · 0.1 km
Easy 11 · 2.5 km
Intermediate 32 · 14.7 km
Advanced 18 · 7.7 km
Other 11 · 0.6 km

Lift types

  • Chairlift5
  • 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.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in January. March brings 77% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in the United States (85%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 27 cm, about the same as the median of 30 cm.

32cm
Dec
35cm
Jan
33cm
Feb
27cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 127 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 65 cm; the biggest was 2022/23 with 179 cm (2.8 times as much).

148
65
169
145
128
122
116
129
179
117
98
109
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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