Black diamond Sunday River, ME
Lower North Woods drops 283 vertical feet over 1,267 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 21° about 50 feet below the top. That's steeper than 9% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 64th steepest of 126 named runs at Sunday River. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 13°, Lower North Woods gets about 83% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sunday River does, December through March. That's shadier than 50% of the runs we've measured, and the 87th shadiest named run at Sunday River. Its top sits at 1,470 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. 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.