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
Great Bear Recreation Park shows its webcams on its own site
Its cameras play only on its own page.
Trail map
15 runs · 3 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 100 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
Sioux Falls Regional (FSD) 12 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 Great Bear Recreation Park 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 Great Bear Recreation Park stands among the U.S. resorts with each figure, and within South Dakota.
- Summit elevation#259 U.S., outside the top 100of 342#3 of 3 in South Dakota
- Base elevation#194 U.S., outside the top 100of 317#3 of 3 in South Dakota
- Advertised vertical drop#381 U.S., outside the top 100of 390#3 of 3 in South Dakota
- Named trails#286 U.S., outside the top 100of 352#3 of 3 in South Dakota
- Total lifts#273 U.S., outside the top 100of 480#2 of 3 in South Dakota
- Airport drive#1 U.S.of 506#1 of 3 in South Dakota
- Big airport drive#368 U.S., outside the top 100of 505#1 of 3 in South Dakota
- Closest airport drive#10 U.S., top 10of 507#1 of 3 in South Dakota
Sources
Every figure on this page in one list, and the pages behind each.
