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Dragon at Arapahoe Basin

Intermediate · 904 m long with 209 m of vertical, averaging 13° and 30° at its steepest, facing NE.

30°steepest 50 m
13°average pitch
904 mlength
209 mvertical
3694 mtop elevation
NEfaces

Snow and sun

Dragon is poleward-facing: least winter sun, holds cold powder longest, can stay firm or icy.

How to get to Dragon

Lifts that reach the top: Lenawee Express (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Beavers (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Lazy J Tow (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Zuma Lift (skiing intermediate terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 10 minutes, intermediate skiing needed):

  1. Ride Wrangler Express
  2. Ski Wrangler (easy)
  3. Ride Lenawee Express
  4. Ski Humbug (intermediate)
  5. Ski Dercum's Gulch (intermediate)
  6. Ski Dragon (intermediate)

Where it ends

Joins Lenawee Parks, Wrangler. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Lenawee Express (1 min), Wrangler Express (2 min), Pika Place (5 min).

See Dragon on the 3D mapAll runs at Arapahoe Basin
Measured from OpenStreetMap geometry and elevation via OpenSkiMap (ODbL). Times are rough. Grades, grooming and openings change day to day — check the resort's own reports.