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Forbes Magazine has released their list of what they feel is the Top 10 USA ski resort for 2014. Here is a bit more on how they compiled such a list.  

“To calculate PAF (Pure Awesomeness Factor) scores and determine which resorts are the best in the United States, our algorithm dances across more than two dozen categories of data on each resort, including: terrain makeup; lift quantity and quality; accessibility (a big, nearby airport is a plus); total vertical; vertical continuity (can it be skied all at once with a minimal of flat run-out or cat-tracks?); skiable acreage; ski town ambience; and, finally, and more important than any other single category—snow.

We’ve always paid close attention to snowfall in these rankings. It’s the one thing that can send a ski trip from “that was a nice, fun, wholesome time” to an entirely different kind of trip: “I’m pushing my return flight back a week, pawning my wedding ring and putting up a down payment on a mountainside condo.” Or, more prudently, you could just buy new skis. The trips that shuffle to the top of your memory after decades of life’s general flotsam are the ones that came with 30 inches of snow. That’s just science.” – Forbes Magazine

TOP 10 SKI RESORTS in the USA for 2014

ResortSnowfallAcreageVertical DropSummit ElevationLiftsPAF Score
1Jackson Hole
WY
475 in2500 acres4139 ft10450 ft1294.6more
2Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort
UT
500 in2500 acres3240 ft11000 ft1192.8more
3Alta Ski Area
UT
500 in2200 acres2020 ft10550 ft1188.6more
4Alyeska Resort
AK
650 in1500 acres3689 ft3939 ft986.4more
5Squaw Valley
CA
450 in3600 acres2850 ft9050 ft3086.2more
6Vail Ski Resort
CO
348 in5289 acres3450 ft11570 ft3186.1more
7Mammoth
CA
400 in3500 acres3100 ft11053 ft1484.5more
8Grand Targhee
WY
500 in3000 acres2592 ft10000 ft583.8more
9Telluride Ski Resort
CO
300 in2000 acres3845 ft13150 ft1882.1more
10Solitude Mountain Resort
UT
500 in1200 acres2047 ft10035 ft881.7more

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