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Yellow Brick Road at Crested Butte Mountain Resort

Easy · 1618 m long with 143 m of vertical, averaging 5° and 8° at its steepest, facing W.

8°steepest 50 m
5°average pitch
1618 mlength
143 mvertical
3250 mtop elevation
Wfaces

Snow and sun

Yellow Brick Road is west-facing: afternoon sun, softens late and can crust as it refreezes.

How to get to Yellow Brick Road

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 6 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)

Where it ends

Joins Upper International, unnamed easy trail, Aspen Park Road. Nearest lifts from the bottom: West Wall Lift (4 min), Peachtree Lift (4 min), Silver Queen Express Lift (5 min).

See Yellow Brick Road 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.