Buttermilk
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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 summit and the base. Live: each figure gives its source and time.
Webcams
Live from Buttermilk’s own cameras, each in the player the resort’s page uses. Press play to watch; one plays at a time.
2 cameraschecked Oct 3
The Power of Four
Nothing loads from Roundshot until you press play.
Camera: Buttermilk · Roundshot player · from aspensnowmass.com
Trail map
50 runs · 8 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). The resort's glades 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 Buttermilk lists, on its trail map and in a list side by side, to tick off as you ski them.
- Skied itRegular
- Foil19 runs
- Holo37 runs
Getting there
Aspen/Pitkin County (ASE) 20 min · Denver International (DEN) 3 h 44 min · Eagle County Regional (EGE) 1 h 20 min · Grand Junction Regional (GJT) 2 h 11 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 Buttermilk is on, and what each gives here.
Ikon Pass
7 days26/27 Ikon Pass: 7 days; Ikon Base Pass: 5 days with blackout dates. (roster entry "Aspen Snowmass" covers Aspen Mountain, Snowmass, Aspen Highlands, Buttermilk)
Mountain Collective
2 daysMountain Collective: 2 days, no blackout dates, half off additional days. (roster entry "Aspen Snowmass" covers Aspen Mountain, Snowmass, Aspen Highlands, Buttermilk)
Rankings
Where Buttermilk stands among the U.S. resorts with each figure, and within Colorado.
- Summit elevation#45 U.S., top 50of 342#22 of 27 in Colorado
- Highest lift-served elevation#43 U.S., top 50of 471#21 of 33 in Colorado
- Base elevation#49 U.S., top 50of 317#26 of 28 in Colorado
- Advertised vertical drop#72 U.S., top 100of 390#15 of 29 in Colorado
- Lift-served vertical#64 U.S., top 100of 305#13 of 27 in Colorado
- Skiable acres#118 U.S., outside the top 100of 319#23 of 28 in Colorado
- Named trails#135 U.S., outside the top 100of 352#22 of 26 in Colorado
- Longest run#23 U.S., top 50of 181#8 of 21 in Colorado
- Advanced + expert terrain#150 U.S., outside the top 100of 209#18 of 20 in Colorado
- Beginner runs#52 U.S., top 100of 209#11 of 19 in Colorado
- Total lifts#116 U.S., outside the top 100of 480#17 of 34 in Colorado
- Airport drive#213 U.S., outside the top 100of 506#18 of 34 in Colorado
- Big airport drive#441 U.S., outside the top 100of 505#24 of 34 in Colorado
- Closest airport drive#30 U.S., top 50of 507#6 of 34 in Colorado
Sources
Every figure on this page in one list, and the pages behind each.