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

Ratings

❄️ Snow

8.5

⛰️ Terrain

4.5

🚠 Lifts

7.9

⏱️ Queues

4.3

💸 Value

1.5

🍻 Après

0.0

✈️ Access

7.1

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	2829–3651 m
Vertical drop	822 m
Pistes advertised	3,148 acres
Pistes mapped on OSM	89.2 km
Lifts (mapped near village)	10 · 70% gondola/4+ chair
Day pass	$259
Passes	Epic
Avg snowfall (mid)	7.2 m / season
Nearest airport	DEN · 90 min

Snow & weather

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The last three winters at 3240 m

Avg snowfall / season

7.2 m

Powder days (15 cm+)

0

Snowy days

69

Avg temp at base

-6.7°

Average snowfall by month · best: Mar

Nov

99

Dec

118

Jan

124

Feb

122

Mar

136

Apr

125

By season: 2022/23: 6.9 m · 0 powder days2023/24: 7.4 m · 0 powder days2024/25: 7.5 m · 0 powder days

When to go

Month	Avg snowfall	Tuesday 11:00	Saturday 11:00
Nov	99 cm	~1.6 min	~3.1 min
Dec	118 cm	~2.3 min	~4.5 min
Jan	124 cm	~2.8 min	~8 min
Feb	122 cm	~3.1 min	~6.3 min
Mar	136 cm	~3.4 min	~6.5 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 Oct 31. Here's a normal February Saturday at 10:00:

SIMULATION Average wait ~6 min, worst 14 min.

Weekend: locals are out

Simulate:

🪑 Discovery

Chairlift · 2-seater · 1,200 p/h · 196 m

14 minpredicted

🪑 A-51

Chairlift · 2-seater · 1,200 p/h · 665 m

9 minpredicted

🚠 River Run Gondola

Gondola · 8-seater · 2,400 p/h · 2,910 m

7 minpredicted

🪑 Ranger

Chairlift · 3-seater · 1,800 p/h · 314 m

7 minpredicted

🪑 Peru Express

Chairlift · 6-seater · 3,000 p/h · 1,868 m

6 minpredicted

🪑 Summit Express

Chairlift · 4-seater · 2,600 p/h · 2,796 m

5 minpredicted

🪑 Ruby Express

Chairlift · 6-seater · 3,600 p/h · 1,722 m

5 minpredicted

🪑 Santiago Express

Chairlift · 4-seater · 2,800 p/h · 1,352 m

5 minpredicted

🪑 Montezuma Express

Chairlift · 6-seater · 3,000 p/h · 2,083 m

5 minpredicted

🪑 Bergman Express

Chairlift · 6-seater · 3,000 p/h · 1,450 m

3 minpredicted

Typical week (February, since the resort is closed now)

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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 7 places mapped · 0 ski-in/ski-out

8.9

Jackpine & Black Bear Lodge

Hotel 🚶 ~2 min to River Run Gondola ⛷️ piste 116 m

Book

7.3

The Dakota

Hotel 🚶 ~5 min to River Run Gondola ⛷️ piste 274 m

Book

6.1

River Bank Lodge

Hotel 🚶 ~7 min to River Run Gondola ⛷️ piste 369 m

Book

5.6

Arapahoe Inn

Hotel 🚶 ~8 min to Discovery ⛷️ piste 473 m

Book

5.6

Oro Grande Lodge

Hotel 🚶 ~8 min to Discovery ⛷️ piste 435 m

Book

1.8

Ski Tip Lodge

Hotel 🚶 ~15 min to River Run Gondola ⛷️ piste 884 m

Book

1.0

Keystone Lodge & Spa

Hotel 🚶 ~22 min to Discovery ⛷️ piste 1.2 km

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)	22.2 km · 25%
Intermediate (red / blue)	37 km · 41%
Advanced (black)	29.8 km · 33%
Freeride / ski route	0.2 km · 0%

Longest named runs

Schoolmarm	4.9 km
Spring Dipper	2.6 km
Flying Dutchman	2.4 km
Lower Prospector	2.1 km
Paymaster	1.8 km
Silver Spoon	1.8 km
Cat Dancer	1.7 km
Jaybird	1.7 km

Après & food

Bars & pubs

0

Clubs

0

Restaurants

18

Mountain huts

0

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Getting there

Nearest major airport: DEN, about 90 min away by road. Directions · Flights

Keystone Resort is a ski resort located in Keystone, Colorado, United States. Since 1997, the resort has been owned and operated by Vail Resorts. It consists of three mountains and five Bowls. The three mountains are connected by a series of ski lifts and gondolas with access from two base areas. Wikipedia