All 6 lift-served alpine areas in North Carolina, each measured from its own lifts. The biggest is Sugar Mountain Resort at 1,132 feet of vertical.
| Resort | Base ft | Summit ft | Vertical ft | Lifts | Lift km | Footprint ac | NDJFM mm |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sugar Mountain Resort | 4,096 | 5,228 | 1,132 | 5 | 4.5 | 91 | 561 |
| Beech Mountain Resort | 4,690 | 5,450 | 760 | 6 | 3.8 | 135 | 575 |
| Cataloochee Ski Area | 4,476 | 5,181 | 705 | 3 | 1.8 | 29 | 744 |
| Hatley Pointe | 3,945 | 4,590 | 645 | 1 | 0.9 | 303 | 679 |
| Appalachian Mountain Ski Area | 3,654 | 3,914 | 260 | 3 | 1.0 | 82 | 606 |
| Sapphire Valley Ski Resort | 3,161 | 3,278 | 117 | 1 | 0.4 | 222 | 860 |
Base and summit are the lowest and highest lift terminal, read off AWS terrain tiles. Footprint acreage is the ground inside the hull of the lift lines — a lower bound on marketed acreage. NDJFM mm is the PRISM 1991–2020 November–March precipitation normal, averaged over the mountain's bands.