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
Pajarito Mountain 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.
Webcams
Live from Pajarito Mountain’s own cameras, each in the player the resort’s page uses. Press play to watch; one plays at a time.
Camerachecked Sep 30
View from the top of Pajarito Lodge
Nothing loads from Brownrice until you press play.
For every camera Pajarito Mountain shows, see pajarito.ski.
Camera: Pajarito Mountain · Brownrice player · from pajarito.ski
Trail map
2024–25 season · artist not stated
Sign in to tick runs off here and in the list; the ones you’ve skied turn pink, with a check.
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 under Runs).
11 runs on the resort’s list aren’t drawn here yet
On the resort’s list, with no line in OpenStreetMap yet: mapping them there draws them here.
Runs
Every run Pajarito Mountain lists, to tick off as you ski them; the trail map above, drawn from OpenStreetMap, names them and turns the ones you've skied pink.
55 runs · 2 parks
The resort’s own list, its trail map leading: every section it lists counts, traverses and roads too; carpets, learning areas, race courses and nordic tracks are left out, and parks are a list of their own.
Sign in to tick off the runs you’ve skied, here and on the trail map.
- Most difficult0.5 mi · 1,010 ft drop
- Easiest1,460 ft · 230 ft drop
- More difficult0.5 mi · 800 ft drop
- BowlMost difficultnot drawn yet
- Bonanza 3 sections, each on the list0.9 mi · 970 ft drop, the whole run as mapped
- Easieston the run’s line
- Easieston the run’s line
- Easieston the run’s line
- More difficult0.7 mi · 1,020 ft drop
Terrain parks
2 · a list of their own, outside the run count
Names and difficulty: Pajarito Mountain — Lifts, Trails & Grooming (pajarito.ski, read Sep 29, 2026); Pajarito Mountain — 2024 trail map (pajarito.ski, 2024-25 map, the newest the resort posts, read Sep 29, 2026); Pajarito Mountain — 2024 trail map (PDF), rendered 5,000 px (pajarito.ski, 2024-25 map, the newest the resort posts, read Sep 29, 2026).
Lines, lengths and verticals where a run is drawn: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, via OpenSkiMap (Sep 28, 2026); measured by Aurora from the mapped line, not the resort’s figures. On the map, glades and bowls are areas: OpenStreetMap’s own where it maps one, else drawn by Aurora around its line, edges approximate.
Getting there
Albuquerque International (ABQ) 2 h 8 min · Santa Fe Regional (SAF) 1 h 4 min
Photos
Photographs of the ski area we may republish, each credited to its photographer. Open one to see it whole.
Passes, rankings and every number
Each row says what it holds; open one for the figures and their sources.
Passes
Power (unlimited)Power (unlimited)
- Power PassUnlimitedPower Pass 2026/2027: Unlimited skiing and riding at all 10 Power Pass mountains—no blackout dates, ever.source
Rankings
14 — #22 base14 — #22 base, #35 top lift, #39 summit in the U.S.
Position among the resorts with a figure; national rank first, state rank second.
- Summit elevation#39 of 341 U.S. · #5 in New Mexico
- Highest lift-served elevation#35 of 471 U.S. · #5 in New Mexico
- Base elevation#22 of 316 U.S. · #4 in New Mexico
- Advertised vertical drop#132 of 388 U.S. · #7 in New Mexico
- Lift-served vertical#110 of 304 U.S. · #7 in New Mexico
- Skiable acres#149 of 316 U.S. · #7 in New Mexico
- Named trails#105 of 347 U.S. · #6 in New Mexico
- Advanced + expert terrain#115 of 202 U.S. · #7 in New Mexico
- Beginner runs#88 of 202 U.S. · #5 in New Mexico
- Total lifts#180 of 479 U.S. · #6 in New Mexico
- Average annual snowfall#168 of 252 U.S. · #6 in New Mexico
- Drive from the fly-in airport#156 of 504 U.S. · #2 in New Mexico
- Drive from nearest major airport#294 of 504 U.S. · #3 in New Mexico
- Drive from closest airline airport#299 of 506 U.S. · #3 in New Mexico