Crested Butte snow report & forecast, lift queues, ski-in/out hotels

Ratings

❄️ Snow

9.6

⛰️ Terrain

4.5

🚠 Lifts

7.1

⏱️ Queues

7.5

💸 Value

2.8

🍻 Après

3.7

✈️ Access

9.4

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	2775–3707 m
Vertical drop	932 m
Pistes advertised	1,547 acres
Pistes mapped on OSM	75.7 km
Lifts (mapped near village)	12 · 58% gondola/4+ chair
Day pass	$219
Passes	Epic
Avg snowfall (mid)	9.8 m / season
Nearest airport	GUC · 30 min

Snow & weather

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The last three winters at 3241 m

Avg snowfall / season

9.8 m

Powder days (15 cm+)

5

Snowy days

67

Avg temp at base

-5.2°

Average snowfall by month · best: Mar

Nov

114

Dec

152

Jan

174

Feb

161

Mar

254

Apr

120

By season: 2022/23: 13.0 m · 6 powder days2023/24: 9.3 m · 4 powder days2024/25: 7.0 m · 6 powder days

When to go

Month	Avg snowfall	Tuesday 11:00	Saturday 11:00
Dec	152 cm	~1.2 min	~2.3 min
Jan	174 cm	~1.4 min	~4.1 min
Feb	161 cm	~1.6 min	~3.3 min
Mar	254 cm	~1.8 min	~2 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 ~3 min, worst 6 min.

Weekend: locals are out

Simulate:

🪑 Red Lady Express Lift

Chairlift · 4-seater · 1,683 m

6 minpredicted

🪑 West Wall Lift

Chairlift · 4-seater · 506 m

6 minpredicted

🪑 Peachtree Lift

Chairlift · 3-seater · 301 m

6 minpredicted

🪑 Silver Queen Express Lift

Chairlift · 4-seater · 2,272 m

5 minpredicted

🪑 Painter Boy Lift

Chairlift · 3-seater · 563 m

4 minpredicted

🪑 Prospect Lift

Chairlift · 4-seater · 746 m

3 minpredicted

🪑 Paradise Express Lift

Chairlift · 4-seater · 1,668 m

3 minpredicted

🪑 East River Express Lift

Chairlift · 4-seater · 1,003 m

3 minpredicted

🪑 Gold Link LIft

Chairlift · 3-seater · 725 m

2 minpredicted

🪑 Teocalli Lift

Chairlift · 4-seater · 1,121 m

2 minpredicted

⤴️ The High Lift

T-bar · 723 m

2 minpredicted

⤴️ North Face Lift

T-bar · 400 m

2 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. ■ under 2 min ■ 4-7 min ■ 7-11 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

Pistes (OpenSnowMap) Lifts by queue Hotels Bars 3D· Drag to tilt. Tap the map to drop a 📍 and the hotels re-sort by distance to it, handy for ski school or a friend's chalet.

Where to sleep 4 places mapped · 0 ski-in/ski-out

8.9

Elevation Hotel & Spa

Hotel 🚶 ~2 min to Silver Queen Express Lift ⛷️ piste 94 m

Book

8.3

The Wood Creek Lodge

Apartments 🚶 ~3 min to Peachtree Lift ⛷️ piste 175 m

Book

7.8

Snowcrest Condominiums

Apartments 🚶 ~4 min to Silver Queen Express Lift ⛷️ piste 230 m

Book

5.6

Nordic Inn

Hotel 🚶 ~8 min to Red Lady Express Lift ⛷️ piste 471 m

Book

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)	17.5 km · 23%
Intermediate (red / blue)	30.8 km · 41%
Advanced (black)	13 km · 17%
Expert	11.1 km · 15%
Freeride / ski route	3.2 km · 4%

Longest named runs

Houston	2.0 km
Aspen Park Road	1.9 km
Gunsight Pass Road	1.7 km
Ruby Road	1.7 km
Yellow Brick Road	1.6 km
Black Eagle	1.4 km
Columbine Hill	1.3 km
Lower Twister	1.3 km

Après & food

Bars & pubs

8

Clubs

0

Restaurants

26

Mountain huts

0

🍸 9380 Tavern🍸 Talk of the Town🍺 Eldo Brewery and Taproom🍺 Montanya Distillers🍸 The Last Steep Bar and Grill🍺 The Last Steep Bar and Grill🍺 Public House🍸 Kochevar's Saloon

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Getting there

Nearest major airport: GUC, about 30 min away by road. Directions · Flights

Crested Butte Mountain Resort is a ski resort at Mount Crested Butte in Gunnison County, Colorado, United States. Wikipedia