Ski Cloudcroft
By: Ski Cloudcroft · 8 Jan
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Typical snowfall
66cm
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
- 2,539–2,731 m
- Across
- 1.5 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. Snow report on the official site ↗
Ski Cloudcroft, in United States, runs from 2,539 m at the base to 2,731 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.5 km across, with 26 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 8 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 66 cm of snowfall a season, 2,697th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 481st in the United States. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2018/19 (94 cm), brought more than 4 times as much as the leanest, 2024/25 (22 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 25 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
66cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
22cm
The middle winter of the 12: 71 cm. The best: 94 cm.
World rank
2697
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
481
of 534 in United States
Elevation rank
65
Highest to lowest, of 534 in United States. The centre point sits at 2,598 m, 2,070 m above the national median.
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
26
Run length
8km
Lifts
2
Vertical
192m
Top 2,731 m · base 2,539 m
Run map
EasyIntermediateAdvancedOther Lift
Slope shape, difficulty and lift types
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map1.5 km
Steepest pitch30°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs11°
Which way the slopes face
North 66%
East 21%
South 0%
West 12%
87% 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 8 · 4 km
Intermediate 10 · 2 km
Advanced 7 · 1.8 km
Other 1 · 0.1 km
Lift types
- Chairlift1
- 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 52% 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 13 cm, less than the median of 30 cm.
12cmDec
25cmJan
15cmFeb
13cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 66 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2024/25 with 22 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 94 cm (4.3 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.
50
36
85
38
94
84
57
91
88
85
22
58
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.
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