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El Dorado at Big Sky Resort

Intermediate · 1728 m long with 362 m of vertical, averaging 12° and 20° at its steepest, facing E.

20°steepest 50 m
12°average pitch
1728 mlength
362 mvertical
2669 mtop elevation
Efaces

Snow and sun

El Dorado is east-facing: morning sun, softens first and shades by early afternoon.

How to get to El Dorado

Lifts that reach the top: Southern Comfort (skiing novice terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 25 minutes, intermediate skiing needed):

  1. Ride Cabin 3
  2. Ride Lewis and Clark 4 - High Speed
  3. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  4. Ski K1 Return (easy)
  5. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  6. Ski Deep South (easy)
  7. Ride Southern Comfort
  8. Ski El Dorado (intermediate)

Where it ends

Joins Deep South, unnamed advanced trail. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Southern Comfort (1 min), Sacajawea 3 (1 min).

See El Dorado on the 3D mapAll runs at Big Sky Resort
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.