Alyeska
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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
Alyeska publishes three levels, so its top share counts advanced and expert terrain together. · .
Snow and weather
The National Weather Service forecast for the summit and the base, and the snowpack measured nearby. Live: each figure gives its source and time.
Trail map
70 runs · 7 lifts, as mapped in OpenStreetMap
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.
The resort’s published trail map is not yet collected.
Getting there
Ted Stevens Anchorage International (ANC) 1 h 1 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)Ikon (7 days)
Rankings
15 — #37 lift vert.15 — #37 lift vert., #58 trails, #110 major airport drive in the U.S.
Position among the resorts with a figure; national rank first, state rank second.
- Summit elevation#167 of 341 U.S. · #2 in Alaska
- Highest lift-served elevation#216 of 471 U.S. · #2 in Alaska
- Base elevation#311 of 316 U.S. · #5 in Alaska
- Advertised vertical drop#42 of 388 U.S. · #1 in Alaska
- Lift-served vertical#37 of 304 U.S. · #1 in Alaska
- Skiable acres#45 of 316 U.S. · #1 in Alaska
- Named trails#58 of 347 U.S. · #1 in Alaska
- Advanced + expert terrain#76 of 202 U.S. · #3 in Alaska
- Beginner runs#115 of 202 U.S. · #2 in Alaska
- Total lifts#151 of 479 U.S. · #1 in Alaska
- Uphill capacity#49 of 72 U.S.
- Average annual snowfall#2 of 252 U.S. · #1 in Alaska
- Drive from the fly-in airport#142 of 504 U.S. · #4 in Alaska
- Drive from nearest major airport#110 of 504 U.S. · #4 in Alaska
- Drive from closest airline airport#277 of 506 U.S. · #10 in Alaska