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.
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.
The resort’s published trail map is not yet collected.
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, rankings and every number
Each row says what it holds; open one for the figures and their sources.
Passes
Ikon (7 days), Mountain Collective (2 days)Ikon (7 days), Mountain Collective (2 days)
- Ikon Pass7 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)source
- Mountain Collective2 daysMountain Collective: 2 days, no blackout dates, half off additional days. (roster entry "Aspen Snowmass" covers Aspen Mountain, Snowmass, Aspen Highlands, Buttermilk)source
Rankings
14 — #9 fly-in drive14 — #9 fly-in drive, #21 longest run, #43 top lift in the U.S.
Position among the resorts with a figure; national rank first, state rank second.
- Summit elevation#45 of 341 U.S. · #22 in Colorado
- Highest lift-served elevation#43 of 471 U.S. · #21 in Colorado
- Base elevation#49 of 316 U.S. · #26 in Colorado
- Advertised vertical drop#72 of 388 U.S. · #15 in Colorado
- Lift-served vertical#64 of 304 U.S. · #13 in Colorado
- Skiable acres#117 of 316 U.S. · #23 in Colorado
- Named trails#134 of 347 U.S. · #22 in Colorado
- Longest run#21 of 177 U.S. · #7 in Colorado
- Advanced + expert terrain#146 of 202 U.S. · #18 in Colorado
- Beginner runs#50 of 202 U.S. · #11 in Colorado
- Total lifts#117 of 479 U.S. · #17 in Colorado
- Drive from the fly-in airport#9 of 504 U.S. · #5 in Colorado
- Drive from nearest major airport#440 of 504 U.S. · #24 in Colorado
- Drive from closest airline airport#30 of 506 U.S. · #6 in Colorado