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.
Snow and weather
The National Weather Service forecast for the summit and the base. Live: each figure gives its source and time.
Trail map
59 runs · 7 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 250 ft. The key counts the lines OpenStreetMap draws, not the resort's runs (its own list is on the run map); bowls and glades mapped as areas are a faint fill in their difficulty's color. The resort's glades and bowls are drawn as areas: OpenStreetMap's own where it maps one, otherwise drawn by Aurora around OpenStreetMap's line, up to 60 m each side and halfway to the next run or lift, so their edges are approximate.
The resort’s published trail map is not yet collected.
Runs
Every run The Highlands lists, on its trail map and in a list side by side, to tick off as you ski them.
- Skied itRegular
- Foil27 runs
- Holo53 runs
Getting there
Pellston Regional (PLN) 29 min · Cherry Capital (TVC) 1 h 34 min · Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW) 4 h 31 min · Gerald R. Ford International (GRR) 3 h 32 min
Photos
Photographs of the ski area we may republish, each credited to its photographer. Open one to see it whole.
Passes
The multi-resort passes The Highlands is on, and what each gives here.
Ikon Pass
7 days26/27 Ikon Pass: 7 days; Ikon Base Pass: 5 days with blackout dates.
Rankings
Where The Highlands stands among the U.S. resorts with each figure, and within Michigan.
- Summit elevation#281 U.S., outside the top 100of 342#11 of 25 in Michigan
- Highest lift-served elevation#330 U.S., outside the top 100of 471#16 of 37 in Michigan
- Base elevation#272 U.S., outside the top 100of 317#13 of 20 in Michigan
- Advertised vertical drop#248 U.S., outside the top 100of 390#3 of 31 in Michigan
- Lift-served vertical#225 U.S., outside the top 100of 305#1 of 18 in Michigan
- Skiable acres#118 U.S., outside the top 100of 319#2 of 22 in Michigan
- Named trails#102 U.S., outside the top 100of 352#4 of 23 in Michigan
- Total lifts#152 U.S., outside the top 100of 480#13 of 38 in Michigan
- Airport drive#450 U.S., outside the top 100of 506#34 of 44 in Michigan
- Big airport drive#426 U.S., outside the top 100of 505#26 of 44 in Michigan
- Closest airport drive#68 U.S., top 100of 507#12 of 44 in Michigan
Sources
Every figure on this page in one list, and the pages behind each.
