Green Wolf Creek, CO
Turnpike drops 296 vertical feet over 2,611 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 11° about 2,360 feet below the top. That's steeper than 27% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 124th steepest of 131 named runs at Wolf Creek. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 7°, Turnpike gets about 100% of the winter sun that flat ground at Wolf Creek does, December through March. That's sunnier than 71% of the runs we've measured, and the 19th sunniest named run at Wolf Creek. Its top sits at 11,360 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.