Marquette Mountain
Marquette Mountain Ski Resort is a ski area located in the state of Michigan in USA. The resort is in the town of Marquette, MI.
We recently ranked all of Michigan's ski resorts, so you can see where Marquette Mountain stacks up against all its nearby ski hills!
Season Passes
Marquette Mountain is a part of the INDY Ski Pass system. This allows you to buy one lift pass, and ski at all of the slopes that are also a part of the group.
Lodging Options
There are numerous options to stay at Marquette Mountain around the resort. Check out the available options with the form below.
Marquette Mountain Mountain Resort Terrain Overview
Marquette Mountain has a total of 25 ski trails, which are serviced by 4 ski lifts, gondolas and/or trams. Marquette Mountain is considered a smaller than average ski area, with only a maximum of 169 acres available to ski. This area is equivalent to 68 hectares, 0.3 square miles, or 0.7 square kilometers.
Marquette Mountain's slopes see on average 210 inches (5.3 meters) of snowfall a year. That is almost 17 feet every year!
Total Runs
25
Lifts
4
Skiable Acres
169(1 km2)
Annual Snowfall
210"(533 cm)
Marquette Mountain Ski Resort Elevation
Marquette Mountain Ski Resort has a summit elevation of 1,357 feet, or 414 meters. However, not all of that elevation is able to be skied. The base of the ski slope sits at 757 feet above sea level, creating a ski hill that is 600 feet (183 meters) high. This is referred to as the slope's vertical drop - or a measure of how high the skiable hill is.
Marquette Mountain has a very low summit elevation. The summit of this park is one of the smaller ones in the country.
Summit Elevation
1,357'(414 m)
Vertical Drop
600'(183 m)
Base Elevation
757'(231 m)
Marquette Mountain Ski Resort Difficulty Level
Difficulty Score™
43.1out of 100
DID YOU KNOW?
At Parks & Trips, we've created a proprietary Difficulty Score that attempts to show how difficult a particular ski slope is. We get to this number by combining a number of metrics for each resort and comparing them to its peers. Most of the score is based off the amount of easy-intermediate-expert slopes by acreage and the maximum vertical drop of the overall resort, but also includes a few lesser-used metrics as well.
Our algorithm compares each resort’s metrics with all others in North America, then assigns each a Difficulty Score, which we use to rank them accordingly. Resorts with a lower score are easier to ski than those with a higher one. However, a high score does not mean that the resort does not have any easy slopes, or vice versa. This is just an overall score given to the resort based on all its metrics grouped together.
Skiable Terrain by Difficulty Level
Marquette Mountain has 169 total skiable acres, which can be broken down into the three main groups of difficulty: Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert.
Marquette Mountain is a beginner-friendly ski area, with about 15% of its trails as easy. However, it also has a fair share of more difficult runs - which account for the remaining 85%.
Beginner
15%(25 acres)
Beginner trails (identified by a green circle) are the easiest trails on the hill with a gradual 25% or less gradient, and are usually wide to accommodate beginner skiers.
Intermediate
50%(85 acres)
Intermediate trails (identified by a blue square) are usually the most popular and crowded runs, which have a slope of anywhere between 25-40%.
Expert
35%(59 acres)
Expert trails (identified by a black diamond... or two) are the hardest slopes on the mountain, and have very steep gradients over 40%.
Is Marquette Mountain Ski Resort good for beginners?
Marquette Mountain can be beginner-friendly, depending on the runs you take. While it ranks in the lower half of all North American ski areas in terms of overall difficulty, it still has 85% of its trails rated at or above intermediate.
Marquette Mountain Ski Resort Location
Marquette Mountain Ski Resort is located in the state of Michigan, USA. This ski area is nearest the town of Marquette, MI.
Address:
Marquette, MI 49855 USA
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Website:
marquettemountain.com
GPS Coordinates:
46.53000, -87.41000
Getting to Marquette Mountain Mountain Resort
By Car: If you are driving, you would set your GPS to either the ski resort's name (Marquette Mountain Ski Resort), its coordinates of 46.53000, -87.41000 (latitude, longitude), or simply drive towards the town of Marquette, MI to get close.
By Air: If you are coming in from across the country, then you may need to board an airplane to get here.
A medium-sized airport has scheduled regional airline service. This type of airport may or may not accept international flights. Here are the closest medium-sized airport(s) to Marquette Mountain.
| Name | Code | City | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Houghton County Memorial Airport | CMX | Hancock, MI | 67 mi |
| Rhinelander Oneida County Airport | RHI | Rhinelander, WI | 116 mi |
| Sault Ste Marie Airport | YAM | Sault Ste Marie, ON | 138 mi |
There may also be much smaller regional airports next to Marquette Mountain Ski Resort, but we didn't list them here due to the fact that no major airlines go through them.
Other Nearby Ski Resorts
Skiers will - especially if coming from far away - try and visit a couple different slopes all in the same trip. Here are the closest other ski slopes within 100 miles of Marquette Mountain Ski Resort.
| Name | Location | Summit | Difficulty Score™ | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John & Melissa Besse Sports Park | Gladstone, MI | 711 ft | 12% | 50 mi |
| Pine Mountain | Iron Mountain, MI | 1,650 ft | 36% | 58 mi |
| Mount Bohemia | Mohawk, MI | 1,500 ft | 74% | 66 mi |
| Mont Ripley | Hancock, MI | 1,140 ft | 45% | 67 mi |
| Camp 10 | Athelstane, WI | 1,739 ft | 42% | 87 mi |
| Paul Bunyan Ski Hill | Lakewood, WI | 1,361 ft | 10% | 99 mi |
Marquette Mountain Ski Resort Mountain Stats
| Name | Statistic |
|---|---|
| Summit Elevation | 1,357 ft |
| Base Elevation | 757 ft |
| Vertical Drop | 600 ft |
| Trails | 25 (15% Beginner, 50% Intermediate, 35% Expert) |
| Lifts | 4 |
| Skiable Acres | 169 |
| Avg. Annual Snowfall | 210 inches |