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Lower Parkway

Blue Whiteface Mountain, NY

Steepest pitch23°
Vertical680 ft
Length2,516 ft
Average pitch16°
FacesE
Top2,246 ft

Lower Parkway drops 680 vertical feet over 2,516 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 23° about 1,900 feet below the top. That's steeper than 61% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 39th steepest of 90 named runs at Whiteface Mountain. It faces east.

How well Lower Parkway holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing east at an average 16°, Lower Parkway gets about 116% of the winter sun that flat ground at Whiteface Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 84% of the runs we've measured, and the 20th sunniest named run at Whiteface Mountain. Its top sits at 2,250 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.

Lower Parkway profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Lower Parkway elsewhere

Nearby at Whiteface 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.