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Paradise Glades

Blue Mount Sunapee, NH

Steepest pitch12°
Vertical116 ft
Length865 ft
Average pitch8°
FacesE
Top1,623 ft

Paradise Glades drops 116 vertical feet over 865 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 12° about 450 feet below the top. That's steeper than 6% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 66th steepest of 74 named runs at Mount Sunapee. It faces east.

How well Paradise Glades holds snow

Snow preservationBelow average

Facing east at an average 8°, Paradise Glades gets about 107% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mount Sunapee does, December through March. That's sunnier than 77% of the runs we've measured, and the 7th sunniest named run at Mount Sunapee. Its top sits at 1,620 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.

Paradise Glades profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Paradise Glades elsewhere

Nearby at Mount Sunapee

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.