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Upper Demon at Durango Mountain Resort

Intermediate · 781 m long with 149 m of vertical, averaging 11° and 22° at its steepest, facing E.

22°steepest 50 m
11°average pitch
781 mlength
149 mvertical
2993 mtop elevation
Efaces

Snow and sun

Upper Demon is east-facing: morning sun, softens first and shades by early afternoon.

How to get to Upper Demon

Lifts that reach the top: Twilight Lift #4 (skiing easy terrain to get there); Needles Lift #6 (skiing easy terrain to get there); 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).

From the base area (about 3 minutes, intermediate skiing needed):

  1. Ride Twilight Lift #4
  2. Ski Bank (easy)
  3. Ski Walk-A-Lot (easy)
  4. Ski Upper Demon (intermediate)

Where it ends

Joins Lower Bank, Lower Demon. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Purgatory Village Express #1 (2 min), Needles Lift #6 (2 min), unnamed magic carpet (2 min).

See Upper Demon 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.