Arapahoe Basin
Alterra Mountain CompanyOpened 1946arapahoebasin.com, opens in a new tab
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.
Trail map
112 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; bowls and glades mapped as areas are a faint fill in their difficulty's colour.
The resort’s published trail map is not yet collected.
Getting there
Denver International (DEN) 1 h 28 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 (unlimited)Ikon (unlimited)
Rankings
15 — #1 adv+exp15 — #1 adv+exp, #3 summit, #4 top lift in the U.S.
Position among the resorts with a figure; national rank first, state rank second.
- Summit elevation#3 of 341 U.S. · #3 in Colorado
- Highest lift-served elevation#4 of 471 U.S. · #4 in Colorado
- Base elevation#3 of 316 U.S. · #3 in Colorado
- Advertised vertical drop#40 of 388 U.S. · #13 in Colorado
- Lift-served vertical#76 of 304 U.S. · #16 in Colorado
- Skiable acres#55 of 316 U.S. · #16 in Colorado
- Named trails#18 of 347 U.S. · #9 in Colorado
- Longest run#87 of 177 U.S. · #16 in Colorado
- Advanced + expert terrain#1 of 202 U.S. · #1 in Colorado
- Beginner runs#94 of 202 U.S. · #18 in Colorado
- Total lifts#90 of 479 U.S. · #15 in Colorado
- Average annual snowfall#38 of 252 U.S. · #6 in Colorado
- Drive from the fly-in airport#230 of 504 U.S. · #20 in Colorado
- Drive from nearest major airport#187 of 504 U.S. · #5 in Colorado
- Drive from closest airline airport#370 of 506 U.S. · #27 in Colorado