Crystal Mountain
Alterra Mountain CompanyOpened 1962crystalmountainresort.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
· ·
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced + expert
Crystal Mountain publishes three levels, so its top share counts advanced and expert terrain together. · .
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
87 runs · 11 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
Seattle–Tacoma International (SEA) 2 h 1 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)
- Ikon PassUnlimitedUnlimited on the full Ikon Pass. Ikon Base Pass has limited access days at Crystal (day count not stated in retrieved text). Ikon Session Pass offers 2/3/4 total days at select destinations including Crystal. Ikon Pass holders get one First Tracks morning per month Jan-Mar (reservation required).source
Rankings
16 — #38 lift vert.16 — #38 lift vert., #42 longest run, #62 lifts in the U.S.
Position among the resorts with a figure; national rank first, state rank second.
- Summit elevation#114 of 341 U.S. · #1 in Washington
- Highest lift-served elevation#124 of 471 U.S. · #1 in Washington
- Base elevation#133 of 316 U.S. · #5 in Washington
- Advertised vertical drop#45 of 388 U.S. · #1 in Washington
- Lift-served vertical#38 of 304 U.S. · #1 in Washington
- Skiable acres#21 of 316 U.S. · #1 in Washington
- Named trails#96 of 347 U.S. · #2 in Washington
- Longest run#42 of 177 U.S. · #2 in Washington
- Advanced + expert terrain#79 of 202 U.S. · #1 in Washington
- Beginner runs#144 of 202 U.S. · #5 in Washington
- Total lifts#62 of 479 U.S. · #2 in Washington
- Uphill capacity#19 of 72 U.S. · #1 in Washington
- Average annual snowfall#49 of 252 U.S. · #5 in Washington
- Drive from the fly-in airport#310 of 504 U.S. · #8 in Washington
- Drive from nearest major airport#271 of 504 U.S. · #8 in Washington
- Drive from closest airline airport#477 of 506 U.S. · #15 in Washington