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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
Stowe 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. 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 500 ft. The key counts the lines OpenStreetMap draws, not the resort's runs; bowls and glades mapped as areas are a faint fill in their difficulty's colour.
Getting there
Patrick Leahy Burlington International (BTV) 58 min · Montréal–Trudeau International (YUL) 2 h 51 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
Epic (unlimited)Epic (unlimited)
- Epic PassUnlimitedFull Epic Pass: unlimited, unrestricted access (Vail Resorts-owned resort). Epic Local Pass: Stowe is a holiday-restricted resort (2026-27 excluded dates 11/27-28/26, 12/26-31/26, 1/16/27, 2/13-14/27); Epic Local holders get half-price pass-holder tickets on restricted dates.source
Rankings
16 — #11 longest run16 — #11 longest run, #29 trails, #47 lifts in the U.S.
Position among the resorts with a figure; national rank first, state rank second.
- Summit elevation#153 of 341 U.S. · #1 in Vermont
- Highest lift-served elevation#185 of 471 U.S. · #8 in Vermont
- Base elevation#203 of 316 U.S. · #11 in Vermont
- Advertised vertical drop#62 of 388 U.S. · #5 in Vermont
- Lift-served vertical#40 of 304 U.S. · #4 in Vermont
- Skiable acres#112 of 316 U.S. · #6 in Vermont
- Named trails#29 of 347 U.S. · #3 in Vermont
- Longest run#11 of 177 U.S. · #2 in Vermont
- Advanced + expert terrain#134 of 202 U.S. · #6 in Vermont
- Beginner runs#35 of 202 U.S. · #4 in Vermont
- Total lifts#47 of 479 U.S. · #6 in Vermont
- Uphill capacity#31 of 72 U.S. · #3 in Vermont
- Average annual snowfall#56 of 252 U.S. · #2 in Vermont
- Drive from the fly-in airport#128 of 504 U.S. · #4 in Vermont
- Drive from nearest major airport#371 of 504 U.S. · #23 in Vermont
- Drive from closest airline airport#259 of 506 U.S. · #15 in Vermont