Sugar Mountain
Mountain
How big it is and what the skiing is like, each figure with its U.S. rank.
Lifts: the lifts mapped in OpenStreetMap, surface lifts and carpets included; the resort publishes no count.
Terrain · the resort’s own difficulty mix
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- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
- Expert
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Snow and weather
The National Weather Service forecast for the mountain. Live: each figure gives its source and time.
Webcams
Sugar Mountain shows its webcams on its own site
Its cameras play only on its own page.
Trail map
53 runs · 8 lifts, as mapped in OpenStreetMap
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 200 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 color.
The resort’s published trail map is not yet collected.
Getting there
Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) 2 h 10 min · Piedmont Triad International (GSO) 2 h 14 min · Asheville (AVL) 1 h 40 min · Tri-Cities Regional (TRI) 1 h 18 min · Raleigh–Durham International (RDU) 3 h 15 min · Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) 4 h 45 min
Photos
Photographs of the ski area we may republish, each credited to its photographer. Open one to see it whole.
Passes
On no multi-resort pass: not on Epic Pass, Ikon Pass, Indy Pass, Mountain Collective or Power Pass.
Rankings
Where Sugar Mountain stands among the U.S. resorts with each figure, and within North Carolina.
- Summit elevation#144 U.S., outside the top 100of 342#3 of 5 in North Carolina
- Highest lift-served elevation#161 U.S., outside the top 100of 471#2 of 6 in North Carolina
- Base elevation#135 U.S., outside the top 100of 317#3 of 5 in North Carolina
- Advertised vertical drop#145 U.S., outside the top 100of 390#1 of 6 in North Carolina
- Lift-served vertical#130 U.S., outside the top 100of 305#1 of 5 in North Carolina
- Skiable acres#208 U.S., outside the top 100of 319#1 of 5 in North Carolina
- Named trails#244 U.S., outside the top 100of 352#2 of 5 in North Carolina
- Beginner runs#118 U.S., outside the top 100of 209#1 of 3 in North Carolina
- Total lifts#116 U.S., outside the top 100of 480#1 of 6 in North Carolina
- Uphill capacity#40 U.S., top 50of 81
- Average annual snowfall#207 U.S., outside the top 100of 253#1 of 3 in North Carolina
- Airport drive#256 U.S., outside the top 100of 506#4 of 6 in North Carolina
- Big airport drive#218 U.S., outside the top 100of 505#4 of 6 in North Carolina
- Closest airport drive#370 U.S., outside the top 100of 507#4 of 6 in North Carolina
Sources
Every figure on this page in one list, and the pages behind each.