Snow Guide
Snow Guide › Whiteface Mountain Ski Area › Runs › Essex

Essex at Whiteface Mountain Ski Area

Advanced · 358 m long with 133 m of vertical, averaging 20° and 27° at its steepest, facing NE.

27°steepest 50 m
20°average pitch
358 mlength
133 mvertical
1104 mtop elevation
NEfaces

Snow and sun

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

How to get to Essex

Lifts that reach the top: Little Whiteface (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Cloudsplitter Gondola (skiing intermediate terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 14 minutes, advanced skiing needed):

  1. Ride Face Lift
  2. Ski U. Valley (intermediate)
  3. Ride Little Whiteface
  4. Ski Excelsior (intermediate)
  5. Ski Essex (advanced)

Where it ends

Joins Upper Northway, Lower Northway. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Lookout Mountain Triple (3 min), Little Whiteface (4 min), Freeway (7 min).

See Essex on the 3D mapAll runs at Whiteface Mountain Ski Area
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.