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
Powderhorn Resort 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
2022–23 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 500 ft. The key counts the lines OpenStreetMap draws, not the resort's runs.
Getting there
Grand Junction Regional (GJT) 54 min · Denver International (DEN) 4 h 14 min
Photos
No photographs of Powderhorn Resort 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
Indy (2 days)Indy (2 days)
Rankings
14 — #38 base14 — #38 base, #47 top lift, #49 summit in the U.S.
Position among the resorts with a figure; national rank first, state rank second.
- Summit elevation#49 of 341 U.S. · #24 in Colorado
- Highest lift-served elevation#47 of 471 U.S. · #23 in Colorado
- Base elevation#38 of 316 U.S. · #19 in Colorado
- Advertised vertical drop#105 of 388 U.S. · #19 in Colorado
- Lift-served vertical#92 of 304 U.S. · #18 in Colorado
- Skiable acres#47 of 316 U.S. · #13 in Colorado
- Named trails#82 of 347 U.S. · #19 in Colorado
- Advanced + expert terrain#115 of 202 U.S. · #16 in Colorado
- Beginner runs#67 of 202 U.S. · #13 in Colorado
- Total lifts#219 of 479 U.S. · #20 in Colorado
- Average annual snowfall#85 of 252 U.S. · #18 in Colorado
- Drive from the fly-in airport#467 of 504 U.S. · #31 in Colorado
- Drive from nearest major airport#461 of 504 U.S. · #28 in Colorado
- Drive from closest airline airport#240 of 506 U.S. · #19 in Colorado