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
The difficulty mix is not yet collected.
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Snow and weather
The National Weather Service forecast for the mountain. Live: each figure gives its source and time.
Webcams
Crystal Mountain Resort & Spa shows its webcams on its own site
Its cameras play only on its own page.
Trail map
2025–26 season · artist not stated
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; bowls and glades mapped as areas are a faint fill in their difficulty's color.
Getting there
Manistee County Blacker (MBL) 37 min · Cherry Capital (TVC) 56 min · Gerald R. Ford International (GRR) 2 h 22 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 Crystal Mountain Resort & Spa is on, and what each gives here.
Indy Pass
2 daysIndy Pass: two all-day or night lift tickets at each partner resort (Indy Base has blackout dates; Indy+ has none).
Rankings
Where Crystal Mountain Resort & Spa stands among the U.S. resorts with each figure, and within Michigan.
- Summit elevation#301 U.S., outside the top 100of 342#18 of 25 in Michigan
- Highest lift-served elevation#368 U.S., outside the top 100of 471#23 of 37 in Michigan
- Base elevation#275 U.S., outside the top 100of 317#14 of 20 in Michigan
- Advertised vertical drop#298 U.S., outside the top 100of 390#15 of 31 in Michigan
- Lift-served vertical#252 U.S., outside the top 100of 305#9 of 18 in Michigan
- Skiable acres#222 U.S., outside the top 100of 319#15 of 22 in Michigan
- Named trails#94 U.S., top 100of 352#3 of 23 in Michigan
- Total lifts#116 U.S., outside the top 100of 480#12 of 38 in Michigan
- Uphill capacity#43 U.S., top 50of 81#2 of 4 in Michigan
- Average annual snowfall#162 U.S., outside the top 100of 253#10 of 19 in Michigan
- Airport drive#348 U.S., outside the top 100of 506#15 of 44 in Michigan
- Big airport drive#326 U.S., outside the top 100of 505#14 of 44 in Michigan
- Closest airport drive#251 U.S., outside the top 100of 507#32 of 44 in Michigan
Sources
Every figure on this page in one list, and the pages behind each.