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Dancing Bear at Stratton Mountain Resort

Expert · 277 m long with 78 m of vertical, averaging 16° and 22° at its steepest, facing N.

22°steepest 50 m
16°average pitch
277 mlength
78 mvertical
954 mtop elevation
Nfaces

Snow and sun

Dancing Bear 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 Dancing Bear

Lifts that reach the top: Snow Bowl Express (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Summit Gondola (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Shooting Star (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Ursa Express (skiing expert terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 9 minutes, expert skiing needed):

  1. Ride Sunrise Express
  2. Ski Lower Middlebrook (easy)
  3. Ride Shooting Star
  4. Ski Janeway Jct. (intermediate)
  5. Ski Get My Drift (intermediate)
  6. Ski Upper Drifter (intermediate)
  7. Ski Interstate (intermediate)
  8. Ski Dancing Bear (expert)

Where it ends

Joins World Cup. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Snow Bowl Express (2 min), American Express (5 min), Summit Gondola (5 min).

See Dancing Bear on the 3D mapAll runs at Stratton 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.