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.
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 · Albuquerque International (ABQ) 4 h 36 min
Photos
No photographs of Purgatory 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
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
16 — #25 base16 — #25 base, #27 top lift, #30 summit in the U.S.
Position among the resorts with a figure; national rank first, state rank second.
- Summit elevation#30 of 341 U.S. · #18 in Colorado
- Highest lift-served elevation#27 of 471 U.S. · #17 in Colorado
- Base elevation#25 of 316 U.S. · #16 in Colorado
- Advertised vertical drop#73 of 388 U.S. · #16 in Colorado
- Lift-served vertical#66 of 304 U.S. · #14 in Colorado
- Skiable acres#43 of 316 U.S. · #12 in Colorado
- Named trails#36 of 347 U.S. · #13 in Colorado
- Longest run#102 of 177 U.S. · #18 in Colorado
- Advanced + expert terrain#53 of 202 U.S. · #13 in Colorado
- Beginner runs#24 of 202 U.S. · #7 in Colorado
- Total lifts#47 of 479 U.S. · #11 in Colorado
- Uphill capacity#32 of 72 U.S. · #5 in Colorado
- Average annual snowfall#82 of 252 U.S. · #17 in Colorado
- Drive from the fly-in airport#101 of 504 U.S. · #12 in Colorado
- Drive from nearest major airport#472 of 504 U.S. · #29 in Colorado
- Drive from closest airline airport#208 of 506 U.S. · #15 in Colorado