Meet Steven Cantwell, Para Snowboarder at Keystone Resort
By: KeystoneColorado · 2026-03-26
Keystone is a ski area in United States, on slopes between roughly 3,567 and 3,567 m. Its mapped area is about 9.2 km across, with 142 marked runs and 20 lifts (about 110 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 161 cm of snowfall a season, 1,527th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 161st in the United States. Its winters are fairly steady; even the leanest, 2014/15 (113 cm), reached 70% of the average. December brings as much snow as January here (38 and 36 cm on average).
Snow 24h
0cm
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 24h
0.4cm
Next 72h
0.4cm
Temperature
5.8℃
Max wind
21.7km/h
Elevation (est.)
3567–3567m
Across
9.2km
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 ↗
Score breakdown
Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 1/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 6/10
Base 2/5
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🌨️ 7 Oct | 0.4 | 2.3 / 12.2 | 16.6 |
| ☁️ 8 Oct | 0 | 1.9 / 11.9 | 21.7 |
| ☁️ 9 Oct | 0 | 2.2 / 13 | 20.7 |
| 🌦️ 10 Oct | 0 | -0.6 / 10.2 | 17.2 |
| ☁️ 11 Oct | 0 | 0.5 / 10.9 | 16.6 |
| 🌦️ 12 Oct | 0 | -0.2 / 11 | 25.3 |
| ☁️ 13 Oct | 0 | -1.7 / 11.9 | 17.3 |
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
142
Run length
110km
Lifts
20
Vertical
913m
Top 3,742 m · base 2,829 m
Run map
NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvancedExtremeOther Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map4.7 km
Steepest pitch37°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs13.8°
Which way the slopes face
North 43%
East 3%
South 15%
West 39%
Only 46% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
Novice 1
Easy 20
Intermediate 51
Advanced 67
Extreme 1
Other 2
Lift types
- Chairlift11
- Magic carpet7
- Gondola2
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.
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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
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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
161 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
113 cm
A typical winter: 163 cm. The best: 214 cm.
World rank
1527
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
161
of 534 in United States
Elevation rank
3
Highest to lowest, of 534 in United States. The centre point sits at 3,567 m, 3,039 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arapahoe Basin | 8.0 km | 158 cm | 1564 |
| Loveland Basin Ski Area | 12 km | 166 cm | 1457 |
| Loveland Valley Ski Area | 13 km | 166 cm | 1457 |
| Breckenridge | 17 km | 146 cm | 1714 |
| Copper Mountain | 22 km | 157 cm | 1578 |
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 45 cm, more than the median of 30 cm.
38cmDec
36cmJan
43cmFeb
45cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 161 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 113 cm; the biggest was 2023/24 with 214 cm (1.9 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.
113
214
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.
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
Official piste map ↗ Coordinates: 39.5720, -105.9334
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