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Sunday River

⛰️ 244–948 m (704 m vertical) · 🎟️ $159 day pass (≈ €146) · 📅 Nov 7 to Apr 26
5.4
Snowlist score

Ratings

❄️ Snow
4.3
⛰️ Terrain
4.3
🚠 Lifts
7.1
⏱️ Queues
6.8
💸 Value
1.9
🍻 Après
1.0
✈️ 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

Altitude244–948 m
Vertical drop704 m
Pistes advertised870 acres
Pistes mapped on OSM88.1 km
Lifts (mapped near village)17 · 59% gondola/4+ chair
Day pass$159
PassesIkon
Avg snowfall (mid)4.0 m / season
Nearest airportPWM · 90 min

Snow & weather

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The last three winters at 596 m

Avg snowfall / season
4.0 m
Powder days (15 cm+)
5
Snowy days
38
Avg temp at base
-1°
Average snowfall by month · best: Mar
Nov
43
Dec
65
Jan
100
Feb
54
Mar
102
Apr
36
By season: 2022/23: 4.2 m · 7 powder days2023/24: 4.4 m · 7 powder days2024/25: 3.4 m · 0 powder days

When to go

MonthAvg snowfallTuesday 11:00Saturday 11:00
Nov43 cm~0.7 min~1.4 min
Dec65 cm~1.6 min~3.2 min
Jan100 cm~2 min~5.8 min
Feb54 cm~2.4 min~4.5 min
Mar102 cm~2.5 min~4.7 minSWEET SPOT
Apr36 cm~0.9 min~1.6 min

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 7. Here's a normal February Saturday at 10:00:
SIMULATION Average wait ~5 min, worst 8 min.
Weekend: locals are out
Simulate:
🚠 Chondola
Chair-gondola · 6-seater · 1,839 m
8 minpredicted
🪑 South Ridge Express
Chairlift · 4-seater · 896 m
7 minpredicted
🪑 Locke Mountain Triple
Chairlift · 3-seater · 1,415 m
7 minpredicted
🪑 Barker 6
Chairlift · 6-seater · 1,424 m · bubble · heated
7 minpredicted
🪑 North Peak Express
Chairlift · 4-seater · 1,226 m
6 minpredicted
🪑 Merrill Hill Triple
Chairlift · 3-seater · 602 m
6 minpredicted
🪑 Spruce Peak Triple
Chairlift · 3-seater · 1,286 m
5 minpredicted
🪑 Jordan Mountain Double
Chairlift · 2-seater · 564 m
5 minpredicted
🪑 Oz Quad
Chairlift · 4-seater · 838 m
5 minpredicted
🪑 White Heat Quad
Chairlift · 4-seater · 1,023 m
4 minpredicted
🪑 Aurora Peak Quad
Chairlift · 4-seater · 1,002 m
4 minpredicted
🪑 White Cap Quad
Chairlift · 4-seater · 1,090 m
4 minpredicted
🪑 Quantum Leap Triple
Chairlift · 3-seater · 444 m
4 minpredicted
🪑 Merrill Hill II
Chairlift · 3-seater · 1,193 m
4 minpredicted
⤴️ Gould Acadmey Surface Lift
T-bar · 842 m
3 minpredicted
🪑 Little White Cap Quad
Chairlift · 4-seater · 939 m
3 minpredicted
🪑 Jordan 8
Chairlift · 8-seater · 1,399 m · bubble
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. ■ 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

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Where to sleep 2 places mapped · 1 ski-in/ski-out

9.5
Hotel 🎿 ski-in/ski-out
7.8
Hotel 🚶 ~4 min to Little White Cap Quad ⛷️ piste 109 m

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)33.4 km · 38%
Intermediate (red / blue)26.3 km · 30%
Advanced (black)12.8 km · 15%
Expert14.1 km · 16%
Freeride / ski route1.5 km · 2%

Longest named runs

Lollapalooza2.3 km
Spectra1.9 km
Ridge Run1.9 km
Kansas1.8 km
Lazy River1.5 km
Three Mile Trail1.5 km
Excalibur1.5 km
Risky Business1.4 km

Après & food

Bars & pubs
2
Clubs
0
Restaurants
3
Mountain huts
0

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Getting there

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

Sunday River is a ski resort in the northeastern United States, located in Newry, Maine, One of Maine's largest and most visited ski resorts, its vertical drop of 2,340 feet (713 m) is the second largest in Maine and the sixth largest in New England. The resort features 139 trails across eight interconnected mountain peaks, and is serviced by a network of 19 lifts. Wikipedia