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Beech Glades

Black diamond Cranmore Mountain, NH

Steepest pitch16°
Vertical148 ft
Length726 ft
Average pitch12°
FacesW
Top875 ft

Beech Glades drops 148 vertical feet over 726 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 16° about 220 feet below the top. That's steeper than 3% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 39th steepest of 54 named runs at Cranmore Mountain. It faces west.

How well Beech Glades holds snow

Snow preservationBelow average

Facing west at an average 12°, Beech Glades gets about 107% of the winter sun that flat ground at Cranmore Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 78% of the runs we've measured, and the 21st sunniest named run at Cranmore Mountain. Its top sits at 880 feet.

Angled toward the low winter sun, it bakes: powder turns heavy soon after a storm, and in spring it softens early in the day and refreezes hard overnight. Shading from ridges and trees isn't counted yet.

Beech Glades profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Beech Glades elsewhere

Nearby at Cranmore Mountain

Measured by ZRankings from 1-meter USGS lidar. Steepest pitch is the steepest stretch of about 50 vertical feet along the skiable line. Run lines come from OpenStreetMap and can sit a little off the skied path.