Vail ResortsOpened 1962vail.com, opens in a new tab
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
· ·
- 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
Sign in to tick runs off here and in the list; the ones you’ve skied turn pink, with a check.
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 under Runs). 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.
12 runs on the resort’s list aren’t drawn here yet
On the resort’s list, with no line in OpenStreetMap yet: mapping them there draws them here.
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
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.
Passes, rankings and every number
Each row says what it holds; open one for the figures and their sources.
Passes
Epic (unlimited)Epic (unlimited)
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.
- Summit elevation#17 of 341 U.S. · #15 in Colorado
- Highest lift-served elevation#16 of 471 U.S. · #14 in Colorado
- Base elevation#41 of 316 U.S. · #20 in Colorado
- Advertised vertical drop#9 of 388 U.S. · #5 in Colorado
- Lift-served vertical#8 of 304 U.S. · #5 in Colorado
- Skiable acres#4 of 316 U.S. · #1 in Colorado
- Named trails#4 of 347 U.S. · #1 in Colorado
- Longest run#9 of 177 U.S. · #4 in Colorado
- Advanced + expert terrain#18 of 202 U.S. · #7 in Colorado
- Beginner runs#4 of 202 U.S. · #1 in Colorado
- Total lifts#5 of 479 U.S. · #2 in Colorado
- Average annual snowfall#36 of 252 U.S. · #5 in Colorado
- Drive from the fly-in airport#57 of 504 U.S. · #9 in Colorado
- Drive from nearest major airport#259 of 504 U.S. · #11 in Colorado
- Drive from closest airline airport#130 of 506 U.S. · #11 in Colorado
