Lower Trails
Lower Trails is a ski area in United States, at about 205 m. Its mapped area is about 1.6 km across.
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 152 cm of snowfall a season, 1,636th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 195th in the United States. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2021/22 (221 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2014/15 (96 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (43 and 41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Competition Trails | 1.2 km | 152 cm | 1636 |
| Upper Trails | 2.0 km | 152 cm | 1636 |
| Mont Ripley Ski Area | 3.8 km | 152 cm | 1636 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings 68% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in the United States (85%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 28 cm, about the same as the median of 30 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 152 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 96 cm; the biggest was 2021/22 with 221 cm (2.3 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.
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.
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