Double black (off-piste) Okemo, VT
The Zone drops 269 vertical feet over 1,250 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 18° about 10 feet below the top. That's steeper than 4% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 78th steepest of 124 named runs at Okemo. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 13°, The Zone gets about 101% of the winter sun that flat ground at Okemo does, December through March. That's sunnier than 72% of the runs we've measured, and the 66th sunniest named run at Okemo. Its top sits at 1,990 feet.
With little slope to hide behind, it takes nearly the full winter sun of open ground: powder settles and turns heavy sooner after a storm, and spring snow softens early. Shading from ridges and trees isn't counted yet.
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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.