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Little Switzerland Ski Hill

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Little Switzerland Ski Hill is a ski area in United States. It sits at about 351 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 0.8 km². Within 2.3 km of the centre, the map shows 30 marked runs and 8 lifts, totalling about 4.5 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 64 cm of snowfall a season, 2657th (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. 12 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
13℃
Max wind
12.3km/h
Elevation
351m
Area
0.8km²

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 7.1 / 17.7 14.7
☁️ 27 Sept 0 9.1 / 19.6 12.2
☁️ 28 Sept 0 10.7 / 22.2 10.1
🌦️ 29 Sept 0 11.2 / 22.1 17.7
🌧️ 30 Sept 0 14.3 / 17.3 20.9
🌧️ 1 Oct 0 12.8 / 21.6 12.2
🌧️ 2 Oct 0 11 / 15.1 18.6

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
30
Run length
4.5km
Lifts
8
Vertical
48m
Top 376 m · base 328 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvancedOther 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 pitch22°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs8°

Which way the slopes face

North 9%
East 36%
South 13%
West 41%

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

By difficulty

Easy 15
Intermediate 7
Advanced 5
Other 3

Lift types

  • Chairlift4
  • Rope tow3
  • 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
64 cm
per season
Range over three winters
33 cm
48–81 cm. The best winter was 1.7x the worst.
World rank
2657
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
456
of 541 in United States
Elevation rank
377
Highest to lowest, of 541 in United States. The centre point sits at 351 m, 183 m below 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
Fox Hill Ski Area4.7 km66 cm2638
Heiliger Huegel Ski Club9.8 km63 cm2674
Sunburst Ski Area18 km67 cm2626
Ausblick Ski Hill23 km60 cm2705

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 68% 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 15 cm, less than the median of 30 cm.

17cm
Dec
22cm
Jan
17cm
Feb
15cm
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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