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Winter Park

⛰️ 2743–3676 m (933 m vertical) · 🎟️ $219 day pass (≈ €201) · 📅 Nov 14 to Apr 19

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6.6

Snowlist score

Photo: Wikipedia

Ratings

❄️ Snow

8.8

⛰️ Terrain

5.2

🚠 Lifts

6.7

⏱️ Queues

4.7

💸 Value

2.6

🍻 Après

2.7

✈️ 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	2743–3676 m
Vertical drop	933 m
Pistes advertised	3,081 acres
Pistes mapped on OSM	125.4 km
Lifts (mapped near village)	21 · 52% gondola/4+ chair
Day pass	$219
Passes	Ikon
Avg snowfall (mid)	8.0 m / season
Nearest airport	DEN · 90 min

Snow & weather

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The last three winters at 3210 m

Avg snowfall / season

8.0 m

Powder days (15 cm+)

Snowy days

Avg temp at base

-5.4°

Average snowfall by month · best: Mar

Nov

107

Dec

114

Jan

138

Feb

134

Mar

153

Apr

151

By season: 2022/23: 7.5 m · 0 powder days2023/24: 8.6 m · 6 powder days2024/25: 7.8 m · 0 powder days

When to go

Month	Avg snowfall	Tuesday 11:00	Saturday 11:00
Nov	107 cm	~1 min	~2 min
Dec	114 cm	~2.3 min	~4.5 min
Jan	138 cm	~2.8 min	~8.3 min
Feb	134 cm	~3.4 min	~6.5 min
Mar	153 cm	~3.6 min	~6.9 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 14. Here's a normal February Saturday at 10:00:

SIMULATION Average wait ~7 min, worst 13 min.

Weekend: locals are out

Simulate:

🪑 Arrow

Chairlift · 3-seater · 1,200 p/h · 698 m

13 minpredicted

🪑 Gemini Express

Chairlift · 4-seater · 2,400 p/h · 687 m

10 minpredicted

🪑 Discovery

Chairlift · 2-seater · 1,200 p/h · 310 m

10 minpredicted

⤴️ Spirit

T-bar · 400 p/h · 197 m

9 minpredicted

🪑 Endeavor

Chairlift · 3-seater · 1,800 p/h · 518 m

9 minpredicted

🚠 The Gondola

Gondola · 10-seater · 3,600 p/h · 1,633 m

8 minpredicted

🚠 Village Cabriolet

Gondola · 8-seater · 2,800 p/h · 439 m

7 minpredicted

🪑 Challenger

Chairlift · 2-seater · 1,200 p/h · 1,380 m

7 minpredicted

🪑 Eagle Wind

Chairlift · 3-seater · 1,800 p/h · 1,334 m

7 minpredicted

🪑 Olympia Express

Chairlift · 4-seater · 1,800 p/h · 2,140 m

6 minpredicted

🪑 High Lonesome Express

Chairlift · 4-seater · 2,300 p/h · 1,769 m

6 minpredicted

🪑 Super Gauge Express

Chairlift · 6-seater · 3,200 p/h · 2,048 m

6 minpredicted

🪑 Pony Express

Chairlift · 2-seater · 1,200 p/h · 997 m

6 minpredicted

🪑 Galloping Goose

Chairlift · 2-seater · 1,080 p/h · 388 m

6 minpredicted

🪑 Looking Glass

Chairlift · 2-seater · 1,200 p/h · 563 m

6 minpredicted

🪑 Iron Horse

Chairlift · 2-seater · 1,200 p/h · 1,653 m

5 minpredicted

🪑 Wild Spur Express

Chairlift · 6-seater · 2,800 p/h · 2,020 m

5 minpredicted

🪑 Prospector Express

Chairlift · 4-seater · 2,400 p/h · 849 m

5 minpredicted

🪑 Sunnyside Express

Chairlift · 6-seater · 2,400 p/h · 1,112 m

4 minpredicted

🪑 Explorer Express

Chairlift · 4-seater · 2,400 p/h · 1,369 m

4 minpredicted

🪑 Panoramic Express

Chairlift · 6-seater · 3,200 p/h · 2,155 m

4 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 1 places mapped · 0 ski-in/ski-out

9.0

Zephyr Mountain Lodge

Hotel 🚶 ~1 min to The Gondola ⛷️ piste 154 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)	29.9 km · 24%
Intermediate (red / blue)	44 km · 35%
Advanced (black)	41.6 km · 33%
Expert	9.9 km · 8%

Longest named runs

Village Way	8.0 km
Vasquez Cirque Access	3.1 km
Wildwood Glade	3.0 km
Parry's Peek	2.7 km
Whistlestop	2.6 km
Corona Way	2.2 km
Cranmer	2.0 km
Upper Egress	1.8 km

Après & food

Bars & pubs

Clubs

Restaurants

Mountain huts

🍺 Doc's Roadhouse🍺 Vertical Bistro & Tap🍺 Pepperonis🍺 Idlewild Spirits Distillery🍺 Winter Park Pub

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Getting there

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

Winter Park Resort is an alpine ski resort in the western United States, in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado at Winter Park. Located in Grand County just off U.S. Highway 40, the resort is about a ninety-minute drive from Denver. Wikipedia