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Massachusetts · lift-served terrain

Wachusett Mountain Ski Area

937 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 1,039 ft to a summit of 1,976 ft. Measured from the lowest and highest lift terminal on this mountain — not a box around a map pin — and cut into 2 five-hundred-foot bands.

937
ft vertical
1,039
ft base
1,976
ft summit
4
uphill lifts
170
footprint acres

The column

2 bands · base to summit
1,000–1,50089 ac · 12.1° · SSE506 mm
1,500–2,00082 ac · 14.3° · S516 mm
under 15° easier 15–25° more difficult 25–33° most difficult over 33° expert bar length = acres · fill = elevation
NESW
Bands
2
All lifts
4
Lift length
3.4 km
Steepest band
14.3°
Operator
—
Coordinates
42.4978, -71.8874

Band by band

slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)AcresSlope° RatingAspectDeg NDJFM mm
1,000–1,5008912.1easierSSE159506
1,500–2,0008214.3easierS170516

Slope and aspect are the Horn 3×3 method on a ~13 m DEM. A band's aspect is the direction of the mean unit vector, not the mean of the angles. NDJFM mm is the PRISM 1991–2020 November–March precipitation normal at that height — liquid equivalent, not snow depth.

How this mountain gets scored

the verification station
No SNOTEL within 25 km. SNOTEL is a western network, so this mountain is verified against the NOHRSC snowfall analysis and the nearest COOP and ASOS observations instead — all coarser, and none of them at summit height. That is a real limit on what can be claimed here, and it is stated rather than hidden.

Nearby

Nashoba Valley Ski Area 36 km Crotched Mountain Ski & Ride 57 km Granite Gorge Ski Area 59 km McIntyre Ski Area 67 km Brattleboro Ski Hill 69 km Summit 71 km

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