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
Purgatory 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.
Webcams
Live from Purgatory Resort’s own cameras, each in the player the resort’s page uses. Press play to watch; one plays at a time.
2 cameraschecked Oct 3
Purgatory Express Summit
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Camera: Purgatory Resort · Brownrice player · from purgatory.ski
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.
Getting there
Durango–La Plata County (DRO) 50 min · Eagle County Regional (EGE) 4 h 15 min
Photos
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Passes
The multi-resort passes Purgatory Resort is on, and what each gives here.
Power Pass
UnlimitedPower Pass 2026/2027: Unlimited skiing and riding at all 10 Power Pass mountains—no blackout dates, ever.
Rankings
Where Purgatory Resort stands among the U.S. resorts with each figure, and within Colorado.
- Summit elevation#30 U.S., top 50of 342#18 of 27 in Colorado
- Highest lift-served elevation#27 U.S., top 50of 471#17 of 33 in Colorado
- Base elevation#25 U.S., top 50of 317#16 of 28 in Colorado
- Advertised vertical drop#73 U.S., top 100of 390#16 of 29 in Colorado
- Lift-served vertical#66 U.S., top 100of 305#14 of 27 in Colorado
- Skiable acres#46 U.S., top 50of 319#12 of 28 in Colorado
- Named trails#37 U.S., top 50of 352#14 of 26 in Colorado
- Longest run#103 U.S., outside the top 100of 181#19 of 21 in Colorado
- Advanced + expert terrain#54 U.S., top 100of 209#13 of 20 in Colorado
- Beginner runs#24 U.S., top 50of 209#6 of 19 in Colorado
- Total lifts#46 U.S., top 50of 480#11 of 34 in Colorado
- Uphill capacity#33 U.S., top 50of 81#5 of 9 in Colorado
- Average annual snowfall#82 U.S., top 100of 253#17 of 26 in Colorado
- Airport drive#480 U.S., outside the top 100of 506#33 of 34 in Colorado
- Big airport drive#473 U.S., outside the top 100of 505#29 of 34 in Colorado
- Closest airport drive#208 U.S., outside the top 100of 507#15 of 34 in Colorado
Sources
Every figure on this page in one list, and the pages behind each.