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 mountain, and the snowpack measured nearby. Live: each figure gives its source and time.
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Webcams
Live from Monarch Ski Area’s own cameras, each in the player the resort’s page uses. Press play to watch; one plays at a time.
3 cameraschecked Oct 3
Pioneer Top
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Camera: Monarch Ski Area · Brownrice player · from skimonarch.com
Trail map
Season not stated · 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 500 ft. The key counts the lines OpenStreetMap draws, not the resort's runs (its own list is on the run map); bowls and glades mapped as areas are a faint fill in their difficulty's color. The resort's glades and bowls are drawn as areas: OpenStreetMap's own where it maps one, otherwise drawn by Aurora around OpenStreetMap's line, up to 60 m each side and halfway to the next run or lift, so their edges are approximate.
Runs
Every run Monarch Ski Area lists, on its trail map and in a list side by side, to tick off as you ski them.
- Skied it: Regular
- Foil: at 39 runs
- Holo: at 78 runs
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Getting there
Colorado Springs (COS) 2 h 35 min · Gunnison–Crested Butte Regional (GUC) 48 min · Eagle County Regional (EGE) 2 h 25 min
Photos
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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 Monarch Ski Area stands among the U.S. resorts with each figure, and within Colorado.
- Summit elevation#14 U.S., top 50of 342#12 of 27 in Colorado
- Highest lift-served elevation#12 U.S., top 50of 471#10 of 33 in Colorado
- Base elevation#2 U.S., top 10of 317#2 of 28 in Colorado
- Advertised vertical drop#144 U.S., outside the top 100of 390#22 of 29 in Colorado
- Lift-served vertical#137 U.S., outside the top 100of 305#22 of 27 in Colorado
- Skiable acres#65 U.S., top 100of 319#17 of 28 in Colorado
- Named trails#82 U.S., top 100of 352#19 of 26 in Colorado
- Longest run#121 U.S., outside the top 100of 181#20 of 21 in Colorado
- Advanced + expert terrain#6 U.S., top 10of 209#3 of 20 in Colorado
- Beginner runs#107 U.S., outside the top 100of 209#19 of 19 in Colorado
- Total lifts#89 U.S., top 100of 480#15 of 34 in Colorado
- Uphill capacity#57 U.S., top 100of 81#8 of 9 in Colorado
- Average annual snowfall#38 U.S., top 50of 253#6 of 26 in Colorado
- Airport drive#352 U.S., outside the top 100of 506#24 of 34 in Colorado
- Big airport drive#347 U.S., outside the top 100of 505#15 of 34 in Colorado
- Closest airport drive#191 U.S., outside the top 100of 507#13 of 34 in Colorado
Sources
Every figure on this page in one list, and the pages behind each.