Active Backwoods Retreat Ski Trails
Active Backwoods Retreat Ski Trails is a ski area in United States, at about 492 m. Its mapped area is about 4.4 km across.
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 133 cm of snowfall a season, 1,909th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 265th in the United States. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2022/23 (194 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2023/24 (79 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (39 and 32 cm on average).
Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.
Elevation of the ski area’s centre point, taken from a digital elevation model. It is not the base-to-summit range.
We do not show a snow depth here. The weather model we use reports snow lying on the ground — it knows nothing about grooming or snowmaking, and it is not the base depth a ski area publishes. In Japan we can check our figures against 234 weather stations. Outside Japan there is nothing to check them against, so we do not print a number we have not verified.
How much snow it gets
Measured by us across 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Compared with what is nearby
Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. Ski areas a few kilometres apart share a weather grid cell and can return the same figure.
| Ski area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Powderhorn Mountain Resort | 11 km | 142 cm | 1775 |
| Black River Basin | 15 km | 144 cm | 1745 |
| Jackson Creek Summit | 17 km | 144 cm | 1745 |
| Whitecap Mountain | 20 km | 119 cm | 2097 |
| MECCA Trails | 31 km | 103 cm | 2336 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings 94% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in the United States (85%). In amount, March brings 30 cm, about the same as the median of 30 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 133 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2023/24 with 79 cm; the biggest was 2022/23 with 194 cm (2.5 times as much).
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
Live Cameras
This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.
Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.
Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
More places to look
Guides covering United States
- Which Famous Ski Resorts Actually Get the Most Snow? 24 Names, Measured Niseko is 526th in the world for snowfall. Zermatt is 554th, Jackson Hole 924th, Aspen 1,201st. Measured identically across 3,069 ski areas, the names everyone books and the places it actually snows turn out to be two different lists.
- A Black Run in Colorado and a Black Run in Austria Are Not the Same Thing. The Maps Prove It. Across 2,888 ski areas: 39% of American runs are graded advanced or harder, and 9% of Austrian ones. Nobody thinks Austria is four times gentler. The grades are measuring different things.
- Niseko vs Whistler: Whistler Is the Outlier, Vail Is the Rule Whistler is the world's 29th snowiest ski area. Vail is 1,335th — and 288 Japanese ski areas get more snow than the resort that defines American skiing.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52