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Northern Lights at Grand Targhee Resort

Advanced · 928 m long with 192 m of vertical, averaging 12° and 26° at its steepest, facing NW.

26°steepest 50 m
12°average pitch
928 mlength
192 mvertical
2533 mtop elevation
NWfaces

Snow and sun

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

How to get to Northern Lights

Lifts that reach the top: Sacajawea (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Colter Lift (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Dreamcatcher (skiing expert terrain to get there).

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

  1. Ride Sacajawea
  2. Ski Dreamweaver (intermediate)
  3. Ski unnamed intermediate trail (intermediate)
  4. Ski Snowdancer (intermediate)
  5. Ski Northern Lights (advanced)

Where it ends

Joins Bird Woman. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Sacajawea (1 min).

See Northern Lights on the 3D mapAll runs at Grand Targhee 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.