Mt. Baker
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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
Mt. Baker publishes three levels, so its top share counts advanced and expert terrain together. · .
Snow and weather
The National Weather Service forecast for the summit and the base, and the snowpack measured nearby. Live: each figure gives its source and time.
Trail map
2025–26 season · 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 250 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 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 Mt. Baker lists, on its trail map and in a list side by side, to tick off as you ski them.
- Skied itRegular
- Foil20 runs
- Holo40 runs
Getting there
Bellingham International (BLI) 1 h 35 min · Vancouver International (YVR) 2 h 27 min
Photos
Photographs of the ski area we may republish, each credited to its photographer. Open one to see it whole.
Passes
On no multi-resort pass: not on Ikon Pass, Epic Pass, Indy Pass, Mountain Collective or Power Pass.
Rankings
Where Mt. Baker stands among the U.S. resorts with each figure, and within Washington.
- Summit elevation#146 U.S., outside the top 100of 342#11 of 17 in Washington
- Highest lift-served elevation#163 U.S., outside the top 100of 471#11 of 17 in Washington
- Base elevation#144 U.S., outside the top 100of 317#10 of 16 in Washington
- Advertised vertical drop#120 U.S., outside the top 100of 390#8 of 17 in Washington
- Lift-served vertical#94 U.S., top 100of 305#7 of 15 in Washington
- Skiable acres#72 U.S., top 100of 319#7 of 15 in Washington
- Named trails#177 U.S., outside the top 100of 352#8 of 15 in Washington
- Advanced + expert terrain#109 U.S., outside the top 100of 209#3 of 8 in Washington
- Beginner runs#132 U.S., outside the top 100of 209#4 of 9 in Washington
- Total lifts#71 U.S., top 100of 480#3 of 17 in Washington
- Average annual snowfall#1 U.S.of 253#1 of 11 in Washington
- Airport drive#356 U.S., outside the top 100of 506#10 of 18 in Washington
- Big airport drive#332 U.S., outside the top 100of 505#10 of 18 in Washington
- Closest airport drive#433 U.S., outside the top 100of 507#14 of 18 in Washington
Sources
Every figure on this page in one list, and the pages behind each.