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Snow-covered lower trails and base area of Arapahoe Basin below rocky ridges, with US 6 curving past
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Arapahoe Basin

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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
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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

Live camera

Pali + Molly Lifts

Nothing loads from HD Relay until you press play.

For every camera Arapahoe Basin shows, see arapahoebasin.com.

Camera: Arapahoe Basin · HD Relay player · from arapahoebasin.com

All webcams· arapahoebasin.com

Trail map

Drawn from OpenStreetMap

173 runs · 9 lifts, as mapped in OpenStreetMap

Map key
Your runs

Pink is a run you’ve skied. Every run is named and ticked on the run map.

Open the run map

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.

The Arapahoe Basin sticker
  1. Skied it
    Regular
  2. Foil
    78 runs
  3. Holo
    156 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.

  • Runningonbrains · CC0
  • No machine-readable author provided. Keflavich assumed (based on copyright claims). · Public domain
  • Zach Dischner · CC BY 2.0
  • Runningonbrains · CC BY 4.0
  • Runningonbrains · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Passes

The multi-resort passes Arapahoe Basin is on, and what each gives here.

  • Ikon Pass

    Unlimited

    Unlimited 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.

Sources

Every figure on this page in one list, and the pages behind each.

All numbers

all 25all 25, in one list
57 observations from 7 publishers