About This Resort
Skiable Terrain: 5,517 acres
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44%Expert
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41%Intermediate
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15%Beginners
Resort Features:
- Great Nightlife
- True American Town
Skiable Terrain: 5,517 acres
Resort Features:
Aspen Snowmass is made up of four mountains, each with their own individual style and easy to get around, yet all accessible on one lift ticket. With over 5,500 acres of terrain across the four peaks, there is something for every skier and boarder to enjoy.
The slopes of Aspen Mountain rise up from the old silver mining town of Aspen, with lifts departing from and trails returning to the edge of the resort. A mix of slopes await you, including some tough blacks and glade runs and some of the most awe-inspiring blue groomers in North America.
Snowmass is the largest of the four mountains and offers the greatest variety of terrain; families and mixed ability parties will find the mountain a joy. As with all of Aspen’s resorts that you will discover on your ski holiday to Aspen, the grooming is marvellous, so novices and intermediates who love to cruise will have a blast. With the US’s greatest vertical at almost 4,400 feet and a number of tough glades and chutes advanced skiers and boarders will also find much to enjoy. Snowmass also has three terrain parks and a super pipe.
A few minutes by shuttle bus away is Buttermilk, which is a great place for beginners, with some excellent learning terrain and spacious groomers. Buttermilk also attracts those that relish terrain parks, annually hosting the Winter X Games on its park, which has 100+ features and a massive super-pipe.
Nearby Aspen Highlands has some delightful tree-lined trails, or you can simply cruise along mid-mountain groomers off the Cloud Nine chairlift, but the mountain is best known for the infamous Highlands Bowl, where experts need to hike up the ridge to be rewarded by some challenging steeps.
While many visitors will choose to stay in Aspen, Snowmass has a growing, purpose-built resort village and offers several slopeside lodging options. The town of Aspen has a number of first-class hotels at the base of the mountain and there are plenty of choices when it comes to eating and drinking, from casual dining to exclusive restaurants, traditional pubs to sleek bars. The town has a cosmopolitan yet homely feel with regular shops alongside the gift stores and high-end boutiques.
Alongside the slopeside lodging in Snowmass Village, there are several restaurants to choose from and its quieter nightlife makes it perfect for families. You can, however, also easily access the main nightlife and après ski in Aspen town; no matter where you stay on your Aspen ski holiday all four mountains are accessible using the free shuttle buses and the service between Aspen and Snowmass village operates until 2am.
Tubing, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and ice-skating are also all available or maybe you can try your hand at snow-biking or even uphilling – climb up one of the four mountains with skis, skins, boots and poles and then ski back down the route you ascended.
Ski facts |
Aspen Mountain | Snowmass |
Aspen Highlands |
Buttermilk |
| Base elevation | 7,945 feet | 8,110 feet | 8,040 feet | 7,870 feet |
| Top elevation |
11,221 feet | 12,510 feet | 11,675 feet | 9,900 feet |
| Vertical drop |
3,267 feet | 4,406 feet | 3,635 feet | 2,030 feet |
| Number of runs |
76
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98
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144
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44
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| Advanced | 52% | 47% | 52% | 26% |
| Inter | 48% | 47% | 30% | 39% |
| Novice | 0% | 6% | 18% | 35% |
| Lifts
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8 including 1 gondola, 1 high-speed quad, 1 high-speed double, 2 quads. |
20 including 1 eight- passenger gondola, 1 pulse gondola 1 six-pax lift, 8 high-speed quads, 2 quads. |
5 including 3 high-speed quads, 2 triples. |
8 including 3 high-speed quads. |
| Lift capacity
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10,755 skiers per hour |
32,358 skiers per hour |
6,500 skiers per hour |
7,500 skiers per hour |
| Terrain Park | – | 3 parks, 1 superpipe & 1 beginner pipe |
– | 5 parks with 1 superpipe |
| Average annual snowfall |
300 inches |
300 inches |
300 inches |
200 inches |
| Skiable terrain | 675 acres |
3,332 acres |
1,040 acres |
470 acres |
| Ski season |
Nov 23 – Apr 15 |
Nov 23 – Apr 15 |
Dec 9 – Apr 8 |
Dec 9 – Apr 8 |
Mr T Few - Travelled to Banff"I would thoroughly recommend yourselves to anyone"
"Your recommendation of Elk and Oarsman was much appreciated, we loved it there and booked a table there for new years eve, which was a great night. We also really liked Banff Ave brewing co, Park Distillery, Melissa's & Magpie and Stump. We had a surprisingly decent meal in the Rose and Crown too! The buses to the mountains were great and really well organised, as was our hotel/airport shuttle with Banff Airporter. I would thoroughly recommend yourselves to anyone looking to book a ski trip"
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