Green Red River, NM
Gold Avenue drops 120 vertical feet over 1,230 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 13° about 10 feet below the top. That's steeper than 43% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 59th steepest of 68 named runs at Red River. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 6°, Gold Avenue gets about 97% of the winter sun that flat ground at Red River does, December through March. That's sunnier than 68% of the runs we've measured, and the 16th sunniest named run at Red River. Its top sits at 8,940 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.