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Wet Mountains. The Wet Mountains are a small mountain range in southern Colorado, named for the amount of snow they receive in the winter as compared to the dry Great Plains to the east. They are a sub-range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, in the southern Rocky Mountains System. There are three variant names of mountain range: Cuerno Verde ...
According to the Colorado SNOTEL map maintained by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, the San Miguel-Dolores-Animas-San Juan rivers basin in southwest ...
Colorado offers many world-class [clarification needed] ski resorts. The following table compares their various sizes, runs, lifts, and snowfall: Name. Nearest city. Skiable area (acres) Top elevation (feet) Base elevation (feet) Vertical (feet) Runs.
Steamboat Ski Resort. 3,668 feet (1,118 m) 6,900 feet (2,103 m) Steamboat Resort is a major ski area in the western United States, located in northwestern Colorado at Steamboat Springs. Operated by the Steamboat Ski & Resort Corporation, it is located on Mount Werner, a mountain in the Park Range in the Routt National Forest.
Lake Helen at Mount Lassen [ 10 ] and Kalmia Lake in the Trinity Alps are estimated to receive 600-700 inches of snow per year. Tamarack in Calaveras County holds the record for the deepest snowfall on earth (884 inches (2,250 cm)). 5. Alaska.
Beaver Creek Resort is a alpine ski resort in the western United States, near Avon, Colorado. The resort comprises three villages, the main Beaver Creek Village, Bachelor Gulch, and Arrowhead to the west. The resort is owned and operated by Vail Resorts which operates multiple additional resorts. Beaver Creek is a regular host of World Cup ...
Independence Pass (Colorado) Independence Pass, originally known as Hunter Pass, is a high mountain pass in central Colorado, United States. It is at elevation 12,095 ft (3,687 m) on the Continental Divide in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains. The pass is midway between Aspen and Twin Lakes, on the border between Pitkin and Lake counties.
Arapahoe Basin is located south of Loveland Pass on U.S. Highway 6 in Summit County. The resort's terrain spans over 1,400 acres, serving up a mix of groomed runs, moguls, cornices, and glades. It features a lift-served vertical drop of 2,270 feet and is served by 9 lifts, with easy access to 145 trails.