The vertical drop is 3,590 feet; there are 31 separate trails on more than 1,000 skiable acres and a total of six lifts.

By comparison, Stowe has 480 skiable acres and a much higher, 2,360-foot vertical drop.

The ski area is huge: four interconnected mountains offer a total of 2,000 skiable acres.

Skiing The resort has 200 trails spanning nearly 88 miles and 1,182 skiable acres.

Blackjack Mountain has 22 downhill runs across 126 skiable acres.

Including the 50 trails, it has 1,600 skiable acres.

We spent seven straight hours carving tracks across the mountain's 2,800 skiable acres.

About 90 percent of Vail's 4,000 skiable acres are on Federal land.

The Basin is home to 6 of the 8 lifts and 85% of the total skiable acres.

Altogether, Big Sky has 78 runs spread over 3,500 skiable acres.