Hover a bar to see what goes into it. Scores sit on a bell curve. 6.5 is a normal good resort and 8 or more is unusual. Method.
Key facts
Altitude
2473–3813 m
Vertical drop
1,340 m
Pistes advertised
5,527 acres
Pistes mapped on OSM
247 km
Lifts (mapped near village)
27 · 70% gondola/4+ chair
Day pass
$249
Passes
Ikon
Avg snowfall (mid)
2.8 m / season
Nearest airport
ASE · 20 min
Snow & weather updated 1 h ago
Fresh 24 h
0 cm
Fresh 72 h
0 cm
Next 7 days
14 cm
Snow depth top (model)
0 cm
Now at 3663 m
☀️ -2°
Now at 2473 m
1°
Gusts at top
31 km/h
Freezing level
3,860 m
8-day forecast (summit)
Today
☁️
·
-5° / 5°
💨 38
Fri
☁️
·
-2° / 5°
💨 36
Sat
🌨️
1 cm
-5° / 0°
💨 48
Sun
🌦️
2 cm
-5° / 3°
💨 20
Mon
❄️
10 cm
-10° / -3°
💨 18
Tue
☁️
·
-10° / -3°
💨 10
Wed
☁️
·
-10° / 2°
💨 9
Thu
🌦️
·
-8° / 1°
💨 9
Open-Meteo forecast downscaled to 3663 m (summit) and 2473 m (base). Rain line ≈ freezing level minus 300 m.
The last three winters at 3143 m
Avg snowfall / season
2.8 m
Powder days (15 cm+)
1
Snowy days
60
Avg temp at base
-3°
Average snowfall by month · best: Mar
Nov
41
Dec
40
Jan
43
Feb
47
Mar
67
Apr
39
By season: 2022/23: 3.5 m · 1 powder days2023/24: 2.3 m · 1 powder days2024/25: 2.5 m · 2 powder days
When to go
Month
Avg snowfall
Tuesday 11:00
Saturday 11:00
Dec
40 cm
~1.7 min
~3.2 min
Jan
43 cm
~2 min
~5.8 min
Feb
47 cm
~2.4 min
~4.6 min
Mar
67 cm
~2.5 min
~4.8 min
SWEET SPOT
Snowfall from three past winters, waits from the queue model (average across lifts, mid-month, holidays included where they fall).
Lift queues
Closed until Nov 26. Here's a normal February Saturday at 10:00:
SIMULATION
Average wait ~5 min, worst 9 min.
Weekend: locals are out
Simulate:
🪑 Assay Hill
Chairlift · 4-seater · 439 m
9 minpredicted
🪑 Village Express
Chairlift · 6-seater · 3,006 m
8 minpredicted
🚠 Elk Camp Gondola
Gondola · 8-seater · 2,634 m
8 minpredicted
🪑 Coney Express
Chairlift · 4-seater · 2,198 m
6 minpredicted
🪑 Alpine Springs
Chairlift · 4-seater · 2,151 m
6 minpredicted
🪑 Big Burn
Chairlift · 6-seater · 2,250 m
6 minpredicted
🪑 Elk Camp
Chairlift · 6-seater · 2,280 m
6 minpredicted
🚞 Unnamed funicular
Funicular · 85 m
6 minpredicted
🪑 Sam's Knob
Chairlift · 4-seater · 1,141 m
5 minpredicted
⤴️ Pines Upper
Button lift · 248 m
5 minpredicted
🪑 Meadows
Chairlift · 4-seater · 382 m
5 minpredicted
🪑 West Buttermilk Express
Chairlift · 4-seater · 1,200 p/h · 1,721 m
5 minpredicted
🪑 Exhibition
Chairlift · 4-seater · 2,616 m
5 minpredicted
🪑 Panda Peak
Chairlift · 314 m
5 minpredicted
🪑 Tiehack Express
Chairlift · 4-seater · 2,400 p/h · 2,016 m
5 minpredicted
🚠 Sky Cab
Gondola · 6-seater · 320 m
4 minpredicted
⤴️ Pines Lower
Button lift · 280 m
4 minpredicted
🪑 Campground
Chairlift · 2-seater · 1,358 m
4 minpredicted
⤴️ Ski School Lift
Drag lift · 148 m
4 minpredicted
🪑 Cloud Nine
Chairlift · 4-seater · 1,410 m
4 minpredicted
🪑 Sheer Bliss
Chairlift · 4-seater · 2,741 m
4 minpredicted
🪑 High Alpine
Chairlift · 4-seater · 1,650 m
4 minpredicted
⤴️ Scooper
Button lift · 256 m
3 minpredicted
🪑 Two Creeks
Chairlift · 4-seater · 2,957 m
3 minpredicted
⤴️ Cirque T-Bar
T-bar · 1,227 m
3 minpredicted
🪑 Summit Express
Chairlift · 4-seater · 2,859 m
3 minpredicted
🪑 Thunderbowl
Chairlift · 3-seater · 1,216 m
3 minpredicted
Typical week (February, since the resort is closed now)
9h
10h
11h
12h
13h
14h
15h
16h
Mon 15
Tue 16
Wed 17
Thu 18
Fri 19
Sat 20
Sun 21
Average predicted wait across lifts. ■ <2 min ■ 4-7 min ■ 11+ min. Hover a day to see why.
How we guess. The model starts from the resort's usual crowd level and adjusts for school holidays (French zones, UK half-term, Presidents' Day, Lunar New Year), weekends, time of day, lift capacity from OpenStreetMap, powder days and summit wind. When skiers on the hill tap a wait time, their reports replace the guess for 45 minutes and the lift shows LIVE.
Map
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Ski access score: 9.5 means ski-in/ski-out (a piste within 70 m and a lift within 600 m). Each minute of walking to the nearest lift costs about half a point. Distances are straight lines on OpenStreetMap, so add about 30% for the walk.
Pistes
Easy (blue / green)
22.7 km · 9%
Intermediate (red / blue)
118 km · 48%
Advanced (black)
50.6 km · 20%
Expert
55.2 km · 22%
Freeride / ski route
0.6 km · 0%
Longest named runs
Homestead Road
4.9 km
Long Shot
3.8 km
Split Tree
3.5 km
Coffee Pot
3.2 km
Powderhorn
3.0 km
Cirque Headwall
2.7 km
Turkey Trot
2.7 km
Sandy Park
2.6 km
Après & food
Bars & pubs
0
Clubs
0
Restaurants
23
Mountain huts
0
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Nearest major airport: ASE, about 20 min away by road. Directions · Flights
Snowmass is a ski resort located in the Town of Snowmass Village near Aspen, Colorado. The ski area is owned and operated by the Aspen Skiing Company as part of the Aspen/Snowmass complex. It was opened on December 17, 1967. Wikipedia