Peachtree Lift Upgrades / Ski & Ride School
By: Crested Butte Mountain Resort · 2021-10-06
Crested Butte Mountain Resort is a ski area in United States, on slopes between roughly 3,143 and 3,143 m. Its mapped area is about 5.9 km across, with 93 marked runs and 15 lifts (about 56 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 240 cm of snowfall a season, 800th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 57th in the United States. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2022/23 (382 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2014/15 (131 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (64 and 53 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.
Temperature
8.7℃
Max wind
24.7km/h
Elevation (est.)
3143–3143m
Across
5.9km
Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.
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. Snow report on the official site ↗
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.
Seasonal snowfall
240 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
131 cm
A typical winter: 213 cm. The best: 382 cm.
World rank
800
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
57
of 534 in United States
Elevation rank
16
Highest to lowest, of 534 in United States. The centre point sits at 3,143 m, 2,615 m above the national median.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aspen Highlands | 29 km | 194 cm | 1201 |
| Aspen Mountain | 32 km | 194 cm | 1201 |
| Buttermilk | 34 km | 185 cm | 1281 |
| Aspen Snowmass | 35 km | 172 cm | 1401 |
| Cranor Hill Municipal Ski Hill | 35 km | 82 cm | 2562 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 65 cm, more than the median of 30 cm.
64cmDec
53cmJan
58cmFeb
65cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 240 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 131 cm; the biggest was 2022/23 with 382 cm (2.9 times as much). For 33% of the 534 ski areas in the United States, the leanest winter was the same 2014/15: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.
131
382
14/1515/1616/1717/1818/1919/2020/2121/2222/2323/2424/2525/26
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
Runs and lifts
Counted from the runs and lifts drawn on OpenStreetMap, within the boundary of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Marked runs
93
Run length
56km
Lifts
15
Vertical
706m
Top 3,488 m · base 2,783 m
Run map
EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map2.0 km
Steepest pitch38°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.1°
Which way the slopes face
North 49%
East 14%
South 6%
West 30%
63% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.
By difficulty
Easy 23
Intermediate 48
Advanced 22
Lift types
- Chairlift10
- Magic carpet3
- T-bar2
See past trail maps on Skimap.org ↗
Source: OpenSkiMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Vertical is the difference between the highest and lowest points of the mapped runs and lifts.
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
See the snow in motion
Videos remain the copyright of whoever filmed them. JAPANSNOWLINE stores no video and plays everything through the standard YouTube player.
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
Official piste map ↗ Coordinates: 38.8970, -106.9432
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