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Upper Canaan at Crested Butte Mountain Resort

Intermediate · 321 m long with 79 m of vertical, averaging 14° and 20° at its steepest, facing NW.

20°steepest 50 m
14°average pitch
321 mlength
79 mvertical
3282 mtop elevation
NWfaces

Snow and sun

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

How to get to Upper Canaan

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 5 minutes, intermediate skiing needed):

  1. Ride Silver Queen Express Lift
  2. Ski Silver Queen Road (intermediate)
  3. Ski Paradise Bowl (intermediate)
  4. Ski Upper Canaan (intermediate)

Where it ends

Joins Fallaway, Upper Forest Queen. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Paradise Express Lift (3 min), Teocalli Lift (3 min), East River Express Lift (4 min).

See Upper Canaan 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.