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Vail

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.

Trail map

2025–26 season · artist not stated

Runs

Every run Vail 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.

182 runs · 9 glades · 2 parks

Vail says 278

Read from Vail's 2025-26 trail map: Vail's full run list arrives when the lifts run, and we'll check this one against it then.

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.

  • Most difficult960 ft · 340 ft drop
  • Most difficult0.8 mi · 1,270 ft drop
  • More difficult1.2 mi · 1,390 ft drop
  • More difficult2,550 ft · 670 ft drop
  • More difficult0.5 mi · 630 ft drop
  • More difficult890 ft · 240 ft drop
  • Most difficult0.7 mi · 860 ft drop
  • More difficult1.0 mi · 1,060 ft drop

Terrain parks

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

    Names and difficulty: Vail — 2025-26 winter trail map (Front Side, Blue Sky Basin, Back Bowls), re-read at 2x (vail.com, 2025-26 map, read Sep 29, 2026).

    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

    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.

    • Kevin R Foote · 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
    • No machine-readable author provided. Dbenbenn assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0
    • Bidgee · CC BY-SA 3.0 au
    • More photoson Google Images
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    Passes, rankings and every number

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

    Passes

    Epic (unlimited)Epic (unlimited)
    • Epic PassUnlimited
      Epic Pass: unlimited, unrestricted access at Vail with no restricted peak dates. Epic Local Pass: access at Vail excluded on holiday-restricted dates.source

    Rankings

    15 — #4 trails15 — #4 trails, #4 beginner runs, #5 lifts in the U.S.

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

    All numbers

    all 23all 23, in one list

    Sources

    73 observations from 7 publishers