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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
Vail 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.
Webcams
Live from Vail’s own cameras, each in the player the resort’s page uses. Press play to watch; one plays at a time.
5 cameraschecked Sep 30
Sun Up Bowl Overlook
Nothing loads from Brownrice until you press play.
Camera: Vail · Brownrice player · from vail.com
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 1,000 ft. The key counts the lines OpenStreetMap draws, not the resort's runs (its own list is on the run map). 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.
Runs
Every run Vail lists, on its trail map and in a list side by side, to tick off as you ski them.
- Skied itRegular
- Foil91 runs
- Holo182 runs
Getting there
Denver International (DEN) 1 h 55 min · Eagle County Regional (EGE) 38 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 Vail is on, and what each gives here.
Epic Pass
UnlimitedEpic Pass: unlimited, unrestricted access at Vail with no restricted peak dates. Epic Local Pass: access at Vail excluded on holiday-restricted dates.
Rankings
Where Vail stands among the U.S. resorts with each figure, and within Colorado.
- Summit elevation#17 U.S., top 50of 342#15 of 27 in Colorado
- Highest lift-served elevation#16 U.S., top 50of 471#14 of 33 in Colorado
- Base elevation#41 U.S., top 50of 317#20 of 28 in Colorado
- Advertised vertical drop#9 U.S., top 10of 390#5 of 29 in Colorado
- Lift-served vertical#8 U.S., top 10of 305#5 of 27 in Colorado
- Skiable acres#4 U.S., top 10of 319#1 of 28 in Colorado
- Named trails#4 U.S., top 10of 352#1 of 26 in Colorado
- Longest run#10 U.S., top 10of 181#4 of 21 in Colorado
- Advanced + expert terrain#18 U.S., top 50of 209#7 of 20 in Colorado
- Beginner runs#4 U.S., top 10of 209#1 of 19 in Colorado
- Total lifts#5 U.S., top 10of 480#2 of 34 in Colorado
- Average annual snowfall#36 U.S., top 50of 253#5 of 26 in Colorado
- Airport drive#51 U.S., top 100of 506#4 of 34 in Colorado
- Big airport drive#260 U.S., outside the top 100of 505#11 of 34 in Colorado
- Closest airport drive#130 U.S., outside the top 100of 507#11 of 34 in Colorado
Sources
Every figure on this page in one list, and the pages behind each.
