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
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Snow and weather
The National Weather Service forecast for the summit and the base. Live: each figure gives its source and time.
Trail map
2024–25 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 250 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
Eagle County Regional (EGE) 51 min · Denver International (DEN) 3 h 9 min
Photos
No photographs of Sunlight Ski Area 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
15 — #44 top lift15 — #44 top lift, #46 summit, #48 base in the U.S.
Position among the resorts with a figure; national rank first, state rank second.
- Summit elevation#46 of 341 U.S. · #23 in Colorado
- Highest lift-served elevation#44 of 471 U.S. · #22 in Colorado
- Base elevation#48 of 316 U.S. · #25 in Colorado
- Advertised vertical drop#75 of 388 U.S. · #17 in Colorado
- Lift-served vertical#68 of 304 U.S. · #15 in Colorado
- Skiable acres#84 of 316 U.S. · #19 in Colorado
- Named trails#61 of 347 U.S. · #17 in Colorado
- Longest run#42 of 177 U.S. · #12 in Colorado
- Advanced + expert terrain#150 of 202 U.S. · #19 in Colorado
- Beginner runs#50 of 202 U.S. · #11 in Colorado
- Total lifts#322 of 479 U.S. · #25 in Colorado
- Average annual snowfall#108 of 252 U.S. · #23 in Colorado
- Drive from the fly-in airport#419 of 504 U.S. · #28 in Colorado
- Drive from nearest major airport#401 of 504 U.S. · #19 in Colorado
- Drive from closest airline airport#213 of 506 U.S. · #16 in Colorado