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Telluride

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

Telluride 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

2024–25 season · artist not stated

Runs

Every run Telluride lists, to tick off as you ski them; the trail map above, drawn from OpenStreetMap, names them and turns the ones you've skied pink.

150 runs · 11 glades · 4 parks

Telluride’s Trail Status counter says 149

The resort’s own list, its trail map leading: every section it lists counts, traverses and roads too; carpets, learning areas, race courses and nordic tracks are left out, and parks are a list of their own.

Sign in to tick off the runs you’ve skied, here and on the trail map.

  • Glade
    Expert only1,650 ft · 770 ft drop
  • Intermediate750 ft · 240 ft drop
  • Extreme terrain0.6 mi · 1,230 ft drop
  • Glade
    Advanced2,090 ft · 920 ft drop
  • Hike-to
    Expert only860 ft · 500 ft drop
  • Bail Out 2 sections, each on the list0.6 mi · 510 ft drop, the whole run as mapped
    • on the run’s line
    • on the run’s line
  • Advanced1,930 ft · 790 ft drop

Terrain parks

4 · a list of their own, outside the run count

    Names and difficulty: Telluride — Snow Report, trail status (tellurideskiresort.com, read Sep 29, 2026); Telluride — 2024-25 trail map (PDF), read whole at 10,000 px (tellurideskiresort.com, 2024-25 map, the newest the resort posts, read Sep 29, 2026); Telluride — Palmyra Peak & Black Iron Bowl hike-to terrain map (2023-24) (tellurideskiresort.com, 2023-24 map, the newest the resort posts, read Sep 29, 2026); Telluride — Revelation Bowl hike-to terrain map (2023-24) (tellurideskiresort.com, 2023-24 map, the newest the resort posts, read Sep 29, 2026). A run only the status list names, not the trail map, says so.

    Lines, lengths and verticals where a run is drawn: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, via OpenSkiMap (Sep 28, 2026); measured by Aurora from the mapped line, not the resort’s figures. On the map, glades and bowls are areas: OpenStreetMap’s own where it maps one, else drawn by Aurora around its line, edges approximate.

    Getting there

    Montrose Regional (MTJ) 1 h 26 min · Telluride Regional (TEX) 16 min · Grand Junction Regional (GJT) 2 h 37 min · Durango–La Plata County (DRO) 2 h 32 min · Colorado Springs (COS) 5 h 51 min

    Photos

    Photographs of the ski area we may republish, each credited to its photographer. Open one to see it whole.

    • Murray Foubister · CC BY-SA 2.0
    • Murray Foubister · CC BY-SA 2.0
    • gmiphone · CC BY 2.0
    • John Fowler from Placitas, NM, USA · CC BY 2.0
    • Murray Foubister · CC BY-SA 2.0
    • More photoson Google Images
    More photos· Google Images

    Passes, rankings and every number

    Each row says what it holds; open one for the figures and their sources.

    Passes

    Epic (7 days)Epic (7 days)
    • Epic Pass7 days
      Epic Pass (and Epic Adaptive, Epic Merchant, Epic Club, VR Lifetime): 7 unrestricted days at Telluride plus 50% off the 1-day rate for additional days. Epic Local Pass and Epic 1–3 Day Passes: no Telluride access.source

    Rankings

    16 — #2 summit16 — #2 summit, #3 top lift, #4 fly-in drive in the U.S.

    Position among the resorts with a figure; national rank first, state rank second.

    All numbers

    all 24all 24, in one list

    Sources

    57 observations from 7 publishers