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.
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 Sep 30
Pioneer Top
Nothing loads from Brownrice until you press play.
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; bowls and glades mapped as areas are a faint fill in their difficulty's colour.
Getting there
Colorado Springs (COS) 2 h 35 min · Gunnison–Crested Butte Regional (GUC) 48 min
Photos
No photographs of Monarch Ski Area that we may republish yet.More photos· Google Images
Passes, rankings and every number
Each row says what it holds; open one for the figures and their sources.
Passes
IndependentIndependent — not on Epic, Ikon, Indy, Mountain Collective or Power
On no multi-resort pass: not on Epic Pass, Ikon Pass, Indy Pass, Mountain Collective or Power Pass.
Rankings
15 — #2 base15 — #2 base, #6 adv+exp, #12 top lift in the U.S.
Position among the resorts with a figure; national rank first, state rank second.
- Summit elevation#14 of 341 U.S. · #12 in Colorado
- Highest lift-served elevation#12 of 471 U.S. · #10 in Colorado
- Base elevation#2 of 316 U.S. · #2 in Colorado
- Advertised vertical drop#144 of 388 U.S. · #22 in Colorado
- Lift-served vertical#137 of 304 U.S. · #22 in Colorado
- Skiable acres#65 of 316 U.S. · #17 in Colorado
- Named trails#82 of 347 U.S. · #19 in Colorado
- Longest run#119 of 177 U.S. · #19 in Colorado
- Advanced + expert terrain#6 of 202 U.S. · #3 in Colorado
- Beginner runs#104 of 202 U.S. · #19 in Colorado
- Total lifts#90 of 479 U.S. · #15 in Colorado
- Average annual snowfall#38 of 252 U.S. · #6 in Colorado
- Drive from the fly-in airport#377 of 504 U.S. · #26 in Colorado
- Drive from nearest major airport#346 of 504 U.S. · #15 in Colorado
- Drive from closest airline airport#191 of 506 U.S. · #13 in Colorado