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Loon Mountain Resort
Off season
Loon Mountain Resort is a ski area in United States, at about 521 m. Its mapped area is about 4.6 km across, with 80 marked runs and 12 lifts (about 46 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 174 cm of snowfall a season, 1,378th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 125th in the United States. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (217 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (80 cm). March still brings 40 cm on average, close to January, its snowiest month.
Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.
Temperature
10.4℃
Max wind
25.1km/h
Elevation
521m
Across
4.6km
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.
Seasonal snowfall
174 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
80 cm
A typical winter: 172 cm. The best: 217 cm.
World rank
1378
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
125
of 534 in United States
Elevation rank
272
Highest to lowest, of 534 in United States. The centre point sits at 521 m, 7 m below 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waterville Valley Resort | 12 km | 168 cm | 1438 |
| Cannon Mountain | 15 km | 188 cm | 1259 |
| Waterville Valley Resort Nordic | 15 km | 168 cm | 1438 |
| Franconia Village XC Ski Center | 18 km | 167 cm | 1449 |
| Campton Mountain | 20 km | 132 cm | 1929 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 85% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in the United States (85%). In amount, March brings 40 cm, more than the median of 30 cm.
43cmDec
47cmJan
43cmFeb
40cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 174 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 80 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 217 cm (2.7 times as much). For 33% of the 534 ski areas in the United States, the leanest winter was the same 2015/16: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.
80
217
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
80
Run length
46km
Lifts
12
Vertical
666m
Top 929 m · base 262 m
Run map
NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvancedExpert Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map2.4 km
Steepest pitch31°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs12.2°
Which way the slopes face
North 66%
East 8%
South 1%
West 25%
74% 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
Novice 1
Easy 20
Intermediate 41
Advanced 17
Expert 1
Lift types
- Chairlift10
- Gondola1
- Magic carpet1
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
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
Coordinates: 44.0451, -71.6396
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.
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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52