What are the first stats you look at when you’re scoping out a new resort? Probably acreage, number of trails, annual snowfall, and vertical.
A site called Mountain Vertical has developed a stat called “True-Up Vertical” to identify the most accurate skiable vertical drop of resorts across North America. They have reevaluated the resort’s advertised vertical and have determined “True-Up” vertical to exclude vertical accounted for long cat-walks, terrain that can’t be skied in one run, and other factors. I encourage you to check out the full site here.
Here are the 10 resorts with the largest vertical according to Mountain Vertical and True-Up stats.
1. Revelstoke, BC
True-Up Vertical Descent: 5620 ft.
Highest Point to Lowest Point: 5997 ft.
2. Whistler-Blackcomb, BC
True-Up Vertical Descent: 5234 ft.
Highest Point to Lowest Point: 5678 ft.
3. Jackson Hole, WY
True-Up Vertical Descent: 4105 ft.
Highest Point to Lowest Point: 4105 ft.
4. Aspen Snowmass, CO
True-Up Vertical Descent: 4030 ft.
Highest Point to Lowest Point: 4396 ft.
5. Big Sky, MT
True-Up Vertical Descent: 4016 ft.p
Highest Point to Lowest Point: 4346 ft.
6. Panorama, BC
True-Up Vertical Descent: 3979 ft.
Highest Point to Lowest Point: 3979 ft.
7. Telluride, CO
True-Up Vertical Descent: 3830 ft.
Highest Point to Lowest Point: 4410 ft.
8. Kicking Horse, BC
True-Up Vertical Descent: 3790 ft.
Highest Point to Lowest Point: 3881 ft.
9. Timberline, OR
True-Up Vertical Descent: 3690 ft.
Highest Point to Lowest Point: 3690 ft.
10. Aspen Highlands, CO
True-Up Vertical Descent: 3572 ft.
Highest Point to Lowest Point: 4292 ft.
