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Lake City Ski Hill

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Lake City Ski Hill is a ski area in United States. It sits at about 2,727 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 0.6 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 9 marked runs and 1 lift, totalling about 2.1 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 103 cm of snowfall a season, 2146th (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. 16 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
12.4℃
Max wind
19.3km/h
Elevation
2,727m
Area
0.6km²

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 4 / 18.5 15.9
☁️ 27 Sept 0 7 / 19.9 19.7
🌦️ 28 Sept 0 7 / 11.2 14.2
🌦️ 29 Sept 0 6.4 / 16.1 8.9
🌦️ 30 Sept 0 6.6 / 13.8 12.5
☁️ 1 Oct 0 3.8 / 15.9 12.6
🌤️ 2 Oct 0 5.4 / 18.4 10.8

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
8
Run length
1.9km
Lifts
1
Vertical
67m
Top 2,768 m · base 2,701 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateOther 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 map0.3 km
Steepest pitch31°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs8.9°

Which way the slopes face

North 32%
East 63%
South 5%
West 0%

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

Easy 5
Intermediate 2
Other 1

Lift types

  • Platter1

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
103 cm
per season
Range over three winters
81 cm
66–147 cm. The best winter was 2.2x the worst — a wide swing by our figures.
World rank
2146
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
341
of 541 in United States
Elevation rank
48
Highest to lowest, of 541 in United States. The centre point sits at 2,727 m, 2,193 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
North Corridor Trail32 km142 cm1673
Silverton Mountain34 km146 cm1630
Kendall Mountain Recreation Area37 km148 cm1597
Miller Mesa Nordic42 km126 cm1863
Top of the Pines43 km106 cm2098

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 35 cm, more than the median of 30 cm.

31cm
Dec
28cm
Jan
34cm
Feb
35cm
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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