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Smuggler's Knob at Crested Butte Mountain Resort

Expert · 211 m long with 36 m of vertical, averaging 10° and — at its steepest, facing N.

—steepest 50 m
10°average pitch
211 mlength
36 mvertical
3247 mtop elevation
Nfaces

Snow and sun

Smuggler's Knob is poleward-facing: least winter sun, holds cold powder longest, can stay firm or icy.

Grooming: backcountry. Ungroomed, off-piste character.

How to get to Smuggler's Knob

Lifts that reach the top: North Face Lift (skiing expert terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 13 minutes, expert skiing needed):

  1. Ride Silver Queen Express Lift
  2. Ski Silver Queen Road (intermediate)
  3. Ski Paradise Bowl (intermediate)
  4. Ride North Face Lift
  5. Ski Schofield Road (intermediate)
  6. Ski Spellbound Traverse (expert)
  7. Ski High Nowhere (expert)
  8. Ski Third Bowl (expert)
  9. Ski Lower Parachute (expert)
  10. Ski Smuggler's Knob (expert)

Where it ends

Joins Third Bowl. Nearest lifts from the bottom: East River Express Lift (7 min).

See Smuggler's Knob 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.