Smith Butte Sno-Park is a ski area in United States. It sits at about 1,175 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 0.2 km². Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 429 cm of snowfall a season, 137th (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. The nearest city of any size is Vancouver, about 104 km away. 6 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.
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. Snow report on the official site ↗
Score breakdown
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☁️ 26 Sept | 0 | 1.7 / 11.4 | 29.8 |
| ☁️ 27 Sept | 0 | 5 / 14.5 | 19.4 |
| ☁️ 28 Sept | 0 | 5.9 / 17.8 | 15.8 |
| ☁️ 29 Sept | 0 | 6.6 / 16 | 16.6 |
| ☁️ 30 Sept | 0 | 7.7 / 19.6 | 11.3 |
| ☁️ 1 Oct | 0 | 8.2 / 19.7 | 17.9 |
| ☁️ 2 Oct | 0 | 5.9 / 17 | 14.6 |
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.
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 area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pineside Sno-Park | 4.9 km | 312 cm | 425 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings 59% 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. For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 68 cm, more than the median of 30 cm.
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
Official piste map ↗More places to look
Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28