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
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- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced + expert
Giants Ridge publishes three levels, so its top share counts advanced and expert terrain together. · · .
Snow and weather
The National Weather Service forecast for the mountain. Live: each figure gives its source and time.
Trail map
37 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 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
Range Regional (HIB) 58 min · Minneapolis–Saint Paul International (MSP) 3 h 40 min
Photos
No photographs of Giants Ridge that we may republish yet
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Passes
On no multi-resort pass: not on Epic Pass, Ikon Pass, Indy Pass, Mountain Collective or Power Pass.
Rankings
Where Giants Ridge stands among the U.S. resorts with each figure, and within Minnesota.
- Summit elevation#227 U.S., outside the top 100of 342#1 of 15 in Minnesota
- Highest lift-served elevation#258 U.S., outside the top 100of 471#1 of 19 in Minnesota
- Base elevation#189 U.S., outside the top 100of 317#1 of 14 in Minnesota
- Advertised vertical drop#258 U.S., outside the top 100of 390#3 of 18 in Minnesota
- Lift-served vertical#251 U.S., outside the top 100of 305#5 of 13 in Minnesota
- Skiable acres#174 U.S., outside the top 100of 319#3 of 10 in Minnesota
- Named trails#162 U.S., outside the top 100of 352#4 of 16 in Minnesota
- Longest run#144 U.S., outside the top 100of 181#4 of 6 in Minnesota
- Advanced + expert terrain#187 U.S., outside the top 100of 209#9 of 9 in Minnesota
- Beginner runs#90 U.S., top 100of 209#3 of 10 in Minnesota
- Total lifts#116 U.S., outside the top 100of 480#6 of 20 in Minnesota
- Airport drive#458 U.S., outside the top 100of 506#18 of 21 in Minnesota
- Big airport drive#437 U.S., outside the top 100of 505#18 of 21 in Minnesota
- Closest airport drive#259 U.S., outside the top 100of 507#14 of 21 in Minnesota
Sources
Every figure on this page in one list, and the pages behind each.