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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
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- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
- Expert
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Snow and weather
The National Weather Service forecast for the mountain, and the snowpack measured nearby. Live: each figure gives its source and time.
Webcams
Live from Arapahoe Basin’s own cameras, each in the player the resort’s page uses. Press play to watch; one plays at a time.
Camerachecked Oct 3
Pali + Molly Lifts
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For every camera Arapahoe Basin shows, see arapahoebasin.com.
Camera: Arapahoe Basin · HD Relay player · from arapahoebasin.com
Trail map
173 runs · 9 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 (its own list is on the run map); bowls and glades mapped as areas are a faint fill in their difficulty's color. 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.
The resort’s published trail map is not yet collected.
Runs
Every run Arapahoe Basin lists, on its trail map and in a list side by side, to tick off as you ski them.
- Skied itRegular
- Foil78 runs
- Holo156 runs
Getting there
Denver International (DEN) 1 h 28 min · Eagle County Regional (EGE) 1 h 18 min
Photos
Photographs of the ski area we may republish, each credited to its photographer. Open one to see it whole.
Passes
The multi-resort passes Arapahoe Basin is on, and what each gives here.
Ikon Pass
UnlimitedUnlimited on the Ikon Pass with no blackout dates. Ikon Base Pass (2025-26): unlimited opening day through Jan 16, 2026, then 5 days with blackouts. Session Pass: 2/3/4 days.
Rankings
Where Arapahoe Basin stands among the U.S. resorts with each figure, and within Colorado.
- Summit elevation#3 U.S., top 10of 342#3 of 27 in Colorado
- Highest lift-served elevation#4 U.S., top 10of 471#4 of 33 in Colorado
- Base elevation#3 U.S., top 10of 317#3 of 28 in Colorado
- Advertised vertical drop#40 U.S., top 50of 390#13 of 29 in Colorado
- Lift-served vertical#76 U.S., top 100of 305#16 of 27 in Colorado
- Skiable acres#55 U.S., top 100of 319#16 of 28 in Colorado
- Named trails#18 U.S., top 50of 352#9 of 26 in Colorado
- Longest run#88 U.S., top 100of 181#17 of 21 in Colorado
- Advanced + expert terrain#1 U.S.of 209#1 of 20 in Colorado
- Beginner runs#97 U.S., top 100of 209#18 of 19 in Colorado
- Total lifts#89 U.S., top 100of 480#15 of 34 in Colorado
- Average annual snowfall#38 U.S., top 50of 253#6 of 26 in Colorado
- Airport drive#202 U.S., outside the top 100of 506#15 of 34 in Colorado
- Big airport drive#187 U.S., outside the top 100of 505#5 of 34 in Colorado
- Closest airport drive#370 U.S., outside the top 100of 507#27 of 34 in Colorado
Sources
Every figure on this page in one list, and the pages behind each.
