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Upper Park at Crested Butte Mountain Resort

Intermediate · 695 m long with 114 m of vertical, averaging 11° and 25° at its steepest, facing NW.

25°steepest 50 m
11°average pitch
695 mlength
114 mvertical
3227 mtop elevation
NWfaces

Snow and sun

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

How to get to Upper Park

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)

Where it ends

Joins Peanut, Lower Keystone, Middle Twister. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Silver Queen Express Lift (4 min), Red Lady Express Lift (5 min), unnamed magic carpet (5 min).

See Upper Park 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.