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Mountain
How big it is and what the skiing is like, each figure with its U.S. rank.
Lifts: the count the resort advertises; resorts differ on whether surface lifts and carpets are in it.
Terrain · the resort’s own difficulty mix
· ·
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced + expert
Alta Ski Area publishes three levels, so its top share counts advanced and expert terrain together. · .
Snow and weather
The National Weather Service forecast for the mountain, and the snowpack measured nearby. Live: each figure gives its source and time.
Trail map
2025–26 season · artist not stated
Sign in to tick runs off here and in the list; the ones you’ve skied turn pink, with a check.
Seen as a trail map shows a mountain: from the base looking uphill, the ground tilted up (heights ×1.5); the arrow points north and the scale holds across the page. Runs and lifts as OpenStreetMap's contributors have mapped them, on the ground from USGS elevation data, with a stronger contour every 500 ft. The key counts the lines OpenStreetMap draws, not the resort's runs (its own list is under Runs); bowls and glades mapped as areas are a faint fill in their difficulty's colour. The resort's glades and bowls are drawn as areas: OpenStreetMap's own where it maps one, otherwise drawn by Aurora around OpenStreetMap's line, up to 60 m each side and halfway to the next run or lift, so their edges are approximate.
20 runs on the resort’s list aren’t drawn here yet
On the resort’s list, with no line in OpenStreetMap yet: mapping them there draws them here.
Runs
Every run Alta Ski Area lists, to tick off as you ski them; the trail map above, drawn from OpenStreetMap, names them and turns the ones you've skied pink.
117 runs · 1 glade
The resort’s own list, its trail map leading: every section it lists counts, traverses and roads too; carpets, learning areas, race courses and nordic tracks are left out, and parks are a list of their own.
Sign in to tick off the runs you’ve skied, here and on the trail map.
- Intermediate1,150 ft · 300 ft drop
- Expert1,450 ft · 590 ft drop
- Intermediate0.6 mi · 470 ft drop
- Expert890 ft · 650 ft drop
- Expert0.5 mi · 730 ft drop
- Expert600 ft · 420 ft drop
- Expertnot drawn yet
- Expert2,170 ft · 790 ft drop
Names and difficulty: Alta Ski Area — Lift and Terrain Status (alta.com, read Sep 29, 2026).
Lines, lengths and verticals where a run is drawn: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, via OpenSkiMap (Sep 28, 2026); measured by Aurora from the mapped line, not the resort’s figures. On the map, glades and bowls are areas: OpenStreetMap’s own where it maps one, else drawn by Aurora around its line, edges approximate.
Getting there
Salt Lake City International (SLC) 43 min
Photos
Photographs of the ski area we may republish, each credited to its photographer. Open one to see it whole.
Passes, rankings and every number
Each row says what it holds; open one for the figures and their sources.
Passes
Ikon (7 days), Mountain Collective (2 days)Ikon (7 days), Mountain Collective (2 days)
- Ikon Pass7 daysIkon Pass: 7 days combined between Alta and Snowbird, no blackouts. Ikon Base Plus: 5 days combined Alta/Snowbird. Ikon Base Pass: no Alta access (5 days at Snowbird only, with blackouts).source
- Mountain Collective2 days2 days at Alta with no blackout dates, plus 50% off additional day tickets (2026-27).source
Rankings
14 — #14 adv+exp14 — #14 adv+exp, #25 summit, #30 top lift in the U.S.
Position among the resorts with a figure; national rank first, state rank second.
- Summit elevation#25 of 341 U.S. · #1 in Utah
- Highest lift-served elevation#30 of 471 U.S. · #3 in Utah
- Base elevation#31 of 316 U.S. · #4 in Utah
- Advertised vertical drop#38 of 388 U.S. · #6 in Utah
- Lift-served vertical#54 of 304 U.S. · #6 in Utah
- Skiable acres#19 of 316 U.S. · #5 in Utah
- Named trails#27 of 347 U.S. · #5 in Utah
- Advanced + expert terrain#14 of 202 U.S. · #2 in Utah
- Beginner runs#38 of 202 U.S. · #5 in Utah
- Total lifts#219 of 479 U.S. · #12 in Utah
- Average annual snowfall#3 of 252 U.S. · #1 in Utah
- Drive from the fly-in airport#70 of 504 U.S. · #6 in Utah
- Drive from nearest major airport#51 of 504 U.S. · #5 in Utah
- Drive from closest airline airport#163 of 506 U.S. · #10 in Utah
