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Roller Coaster at Crested Butte Mountain Resort

Easy · 586 m long with 97 m of vertical, averaging 9° and 19° at its steepest, facing NW.

19°steepest 50 m
9°average pitch
586 mlength
97 mvertical
3157 mtop elevation
NWfaces

Snow and sun

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

How to get to Roller Coaster

Lifts that reach the top: Paradise Express Lift (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Silver Queen Express Lift (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); North Face Lift (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); The High Lift (skiing expert terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 7 minutes, intermediate skiing needed):

  1. Ride Silver Queen Express Lift
  2. Ski Silver Queen Road (intermediate)
  3. Ski Upper Ruby Chief (intermediate)
  4. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  5. Ski Yellow Brick Road (easy)
  6. Ski Upper Park (intermediate)
  7. Ski Roller Coaster (easy)

Where it ends

Joins Lower Keystone. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Red Lady Express Lift (4 min), unnamed magic carpet (4 min), Silver Queen Express Lift (4 min).

See Roller Coaster on the 3D mapAll runs at Crested Butte Mountain 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.