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Ambassador's Glade at Durango Mountain Resort

Advanced · 653 m long with 152 m of vertical, averaging 13° and 30° at its steepest, facing NE.

30°steepest 50 m
13°average pitch
653 mlength
152 mvertical
3045 mtop elevation
NEfaces

Snow and sun

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

Grooming: backcountry. Tree skiing (gladed). Ungroomed, off-piste character.

How to get to Ambassador's Glade

Lifts that reach the top: Needles Lift #6 (skiing easy terrain to get there); Engineer Lift #2 (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Purgatory Village Express #1 (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Hermosa Park Express #3 (skiing intermediate terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 4 minutes, advanced skiing needed):

  1. Ride Needles Lift #6
  2. Ski Mercy (easy)
  3. Ski Ambassador's Glade (advanced)

Where it ends

Joins Cherub, Tinker's Detour. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Purgatory Village Express #1 (2 min), Needles Lift #6 (2 min), unnamed magic carpet (3 min).

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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.