Mountain
How big it is and what the skiing is like, each figure with its U.S. rank.
Lifts: the lifts mapped in OpenStreetMap, surface lifts and carpets included; the resort publishes no count.
Terrain · the resort’s own difficulty mix
· ·
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced + expert
Arctic Valley 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
21 runs · 3 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 200 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) 29 min
Photos
No photographs of Arctic Valley that we may republish yet.More photos· Google Images
Passes, rankings and every number
Each row says what it holds; open one for the figures and their sources.
Passes
Indy (2 days)Indy (2 days)
Rankings
13 — #14 major airport drive13 — #14 major airport drive, #22 adv+exp in the U.S.
Position among the resorts with a figure; national rank first, state rank second.
- Summit elevation#164 of 341 U.S. · #1 in Alaska
- Highest lift-served elevation#179 of 471 U.S. · #1 in Alaska
- Base elevation#156 of 316 U.S. · #1 in Alaska
- Advertised vertical drop#119 of 388 U.S. · #3 in Alaska
- Lift-served vertical#113 of 304 U.S. · #2 in Alaska
- Skiable acres#131 of 316 U.S. · #4 in Alaska
- Named trails#213 of 347 U.S. · #4 in Alaska
- Advanced + expert terrain#22 of 202 U.S. · #1 in Alaska
- Beginner runs#194 of 202 U.S. · #4 in Alaska
- Total lifts#322 of 479 U.S. · #2 in Alaska
- Drive from the fly-in airport#22 of 504 U.S. · #1 in Alaska
- Drive from nearest major airport#14 of 504 U.S. · #1 in Alaska
- Drive from closest airline airport#68 of 506 U.S. · #4 in Alaska