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El Diablo at Durango Mountain Resort

Intermediate · 217 m long with 42 m of vertical, averaging 11° and 19° at its steepest, facing NE.

19°steepest 50 m
11°average pitch
217 mlength
42 mvertical
3035 mtop elevation
NEfaces

Snow and sun

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

How to get to El Diablo

Lifts that reach the top: Grizzly Lift #5 (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); Legends Express #8 (skiing intermediate terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 8 minutes, intermediate skiing needed):

  1. Ride Twilight Lift #4
  2. Ski Bank (easy)
  3. Ski Walk-A-Lot (easy)
  4. Ride Engineer Lift #2
  5. Ski West Fork (intermediate)
  6. Ski Westfork (intermediate)
  7. Ski El Diablo (intermediate)

Where it ends

Joins Mercy, Limbo, Angel's Road, Upper Demon, Walk-A-Lot. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Engineer Lift #2 (1 min), Purgatory Village Express #1 (4 min), Needles Lift #6 (4 min).

See El Diablo on the 3D mapAll runs at Durango 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.