Pine Mountain
Pine Mountain Ski Resort is a ski area located in the state of Michigan in USA. The resort is in the town of Iron Mountain, MI.
We recently ranked all of Michigan's ski resorts, so you can see where Pine Mountain stacks up against all its nearby ski hills!
Season Passes
Pine 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 Pine Mountain around the resort. Check out the available options with the form below.
Pine Mountain Mountain Resort Terrain Overview
Pine Mountain has a total of 27 ski trails, which are serviced by 5 ski lifts, gondolas and/or trams. With 340 acres, Pine Mountain Ski Resort has a moderate amount of skiiable terrain available for skiers. This area is equivalent to 138 hectares, 0.5 square miles, or 1.4 square kilometers.
Pine Mountain's slopes see on average 43 inches (1.1 meters) of snowfall a year.
Total Runs
27
Lifts
5
Skiable Acres
340(1 km2)
Annual Snowfall
43"(109 cm)
Pine Mountain Ski Resort Elevation
Pine Mountain Ski Resort has a summit elevation of 1,650 feet, or 503 meters. However, not all of that elevation is able to be skied. The base of the ski slope sits at 1,150 feet above sea level, creating a ski hill that is 500 feet (152 meters) high. This is referred to as the slope's vertical drop - or a measure of how high the skiable hill is.
Pine Mountain has a very low summit elevation. The summit of this park is one of the smaller ones in the country.
Summit Elevation
1,650'(503 m)
Vertical Drop
500'(152 m)
Base Elevation
1,150'(351 m)
Pine Mountain Ski Resort Difficulty Level
Difficulty Score™
35.9out 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
Pine Mountain has 340 total skiable acres, which can be broken down into the three main groups of difficulty: Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert.
Pine Mountain is a beginner-friendly ski area, with about 30% of its trails as easy. However, it also has a fair share of more difficult runs - which account for the remaining 70%.
Beginner
30%(102 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
40%(136 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
30%(102 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 Pine Mountain Ski Resort good for beginners?
Pine 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 70% of its trails rated at or above intermediate.
Pine Mountain Ski Resort Location
Pine Mountain Ski Resort is located in the state of Michigan, USA. This ski area is nearest the town of Iron Mountain, MI.
Address:
Iron Mountain, MI 49801 USA
View on Google Maps
Website:
pinemountainresort.com
GPS Coordinates:
45.84000, -88.09000
Getting to Pine Mountain Mountain Resort
By Car: If you are driving, you would set your GPS to either the ski resort's name (Pine Mountain Ski Resort), its coordinates of 45.84000, -88.09000 (latitude, longitude), or simply drive towards the town of Iron Mountain, 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 Pine Mountain.
| Name | Code | City | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhinelander Oneida County Airport | RHI | Rhinelander, WI | 68 mi |
| Austin Straubel International Airport | GRB | Green Bay, WI | 94 mi |
| Houghton County Memorial Airport | CMX | Hancock, MI | 94 mi |
There may also be much smaller regional airports next to Pine 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 Pine Mountain Ski Resort.
| Name | Location | Summit | Difficulty Score™ | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Camp 10 | Athelstane, WI | 1,739 ft | 42% | 31 mi |
| Paul Bunyan Ski Hill | Lakewood, WI | 1,361 ft | 10% | 41 mi |
| Christie Mountain | Bruce, WI | 1,650 ft | 34% | 49 mi |
| Nordic Mountain | Mountain, WI | 1,137 ft | 40% | 49 mi |
| John & Melissa Besse Sports Park | Gladstone, MI | 711 ft | 12% | 51 mi |
| Marquette Mountain | Marquette, MI | 1,357 ft | 43% | 58 mi |
| Mont Ripley | Hancock, MI | 1,140 ft | 45% | 90 mi |
Pine Mountain Ski Resort Mountain Stats
| Name | Statistic |
|---|---|
| Summit Elevation | 1,650 ft |
| Base Elevation | 1,150 ft |
| Vertical Drop | 500 ft |
| Trails | 27 (30% Beginner, 40% Intermediate, 30% Expert) |
| Lifts | 5 |
| Skiable Acres | 340 |
| Avg. Annual Snowfall | 43 inches |