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Snow-covered ski runs and glades on Vail Mountain's front side, seen across a valley under a clear sky.
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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

Live camera

Sun Up Bowl Overlook

Nothing loads from Brownrice until you press play.

Camera: Vail · Brownrice player · from vail.com

All webcams· vail.com

Trail map

2025–26 season · artist not stated

Runs

Every run Vail lists, on its trail map and in a list side by side, to tick off as you ski them.

The Vail sticker
  1. Skied it
    Regular
  2. Foil
    91 runs
  3. Holo
    182 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.

  • No machine-readable author provided. Dbenbenn assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Flickr user: Brendan Gray London, UK https://www.flickr.com/photos/grayskull/ · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Zach Dischner · CC BY 2.0
  • Bidgee · CC BY-SA 3.0 au
  • More photoson Google Images
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More photos· Google Images

Passes

The multi-resort passes Vail is on, and what each gives here.

  • Epic Pass

    Unlimited

    Epic 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.

Sources

Every figure on this page in one list, and the pages behind each.

All numbers

all 24all 24, in one list
75 observations from 7 publishers