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Afton Alps is a ski area, which hosts a collection of ski and snowboard trails, located along the St. Croix River in the northeast corner of Denmark Township, Washington County, south of Afton, Minnesota in the United States. There are nearly 300 acres (1.2 km 2) skiable at Afton Alps. The ski hill has 350 feet (110 m) of vertical drop.
Afton Alps: Afton: Minnesota: 700 350 350 300 50 22 60 October 1, 2019 [170] Andes Tower Hills: Kensington: Minnesota: 1,620 1,330 290 35 15 6 55 October 1, 2019 [171] Buck Hill: Burnsville: Minnesota: 1,211 949 262 45 16 9 60 October 1, 2019 [172] Buena Vista Ski Area: Bemidji: Minnesota: 1,510 1280 230 30 16 5 78 October 1, 2019 [173] Chester ...
Afton State Park is a state park of Minnesota, USA, on the St. Croix River in Washington County. Its hiking trails offer views of the river, rolling glacial moraine , and bluffland it preserves. It is a popular place for birdwatching , picnics , camping , and other typical outdoor recreational activities.
Niehues' method of painting ski trails begins with aerial photographs of the mountain that he either takes himself or obtains from Google Earth. [1] He then sketches the mountain based on the photographs and adds color and detail with watercolor paints and an airbrush. [10] By 2016, Niehues had painted 255 maps for 175 ski resorts around the ...
Buck Hill is a ski hill in the north central United States, located in Burnsville, Minnesota, a suburb south of Minneapolis. It is one of three alpine ski areas in the Twin Cities metropolitan area, along with Afton Alps and Hyland. Buck Hill opened 71 years ago in 1954 and offers ski, snowboard, and tubing trails.
Afton (/ ˈ æ f t ə n / AF-tən) [4] is a city in Washington County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 2,886 at the 2010 United States Census . [ 5 ] It lies on a small bay where Valley Creek empties into the St. Croix River , several miles north of its confluence with the Mississippi River .
Sign on the alpine route at Piz Uccello, Switzerland Swiss signs: hiking trails in yellow, mountain path in white-red-white, Alpine Route in white-blue-white. An alpine route (German: Alpine Routen) or high alpine route (German: Hochalpine Routen) is a trail or climbing route through difficult terrain in high mountains such as the Alps, sometimes with no obvious path.
A ski route (German: Skiroute) or ski trail is an officially signed piste or ski run that is cleared for skiing but is not usually managed or prepared by snowcats or other equipment. [ 1 ] Description