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Sleeping Giant Ski Resort

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Sleeping Giant Ski Resort is a ski area located in the state of Wyoming in USA. The resort is in the town of Cody, WY.

We recently ranked all of Wyoming's ski resorts, so you can see where Sleeping Giant stacks up against all its nearby ski hills!

Season Passes

Sleeping Giant 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 Sleeping Giant around the resort. Check out the available options with the form below.

Sleeping Giant Mountain Resort Terrain Overview

Sleeping Giant has a total of 49 ski trails, which are serviced by 3 ski lifts, gondolas and/or trams. Sleeping Giant is considered a smaller than average ski area, with only a maximum of 184 acres available to ski. This area is equivalent to 74 hectares, 0.3 square miles, or 0.7 square kilometers.

Sleeping Giant's slopes see on average 250 inches (7.6 meters) of snowfall a year. That is almost 20 feet every year!

Trails
Total Runs
49
Ski Lift
Lifts
3
Skier
Skiable Acres
184(1 km2)
Snow
Annual Snowfall
250"(7,620 cm)

Sleeping Giant Ski Resort Elevation

Sleeping Giant Ski Resort has a summit elevation of 7,428 feet, or 2,264 meters. However, not all of that elevation is able to be skied. The base of the ski slope sits at 6,619 feet above sea level, creating a ski hill that is 809 feet (247 meters) high. This is referred to as the slope's vertical drop - or a measure of how high the skiable hill is.

Sleeping Giant's summit elevation is higher than average. There are a lot of ski slopes that are much higher than this one (some stretch to 12,000 feet!), but it is not small by any stretch of the imagination.

Mountain Summit
Summit Elevation
7,428'(2,264 m)
Vertical Drop
Vertical Drop
809'(247 m)
Mountain base
Base Elevation
6,619'(2,017 m)

Sleeping Giant Ski Resort Difficulty Level

Score
Difficulty Score™
47.1out of 100
←  EasyHard  →
Sleeping Giant can be beginner-friendly, but it depends on the ski trails you ride. 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 ski level.

 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

Sleeping Giant has 184 total skiable acres, which can be broken down into the three main groups of difficulty: Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert.

Sleeping Giant is mostly a beginner-friendly ski area, with about 15% of its trails as easy. However, it also has its fair share of more difficult runs - which account for the remaining 85%.
Green Circle
Beginner
15%(28 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.

Blue Square
Intermediate
41%(75 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%.

Black Diamond
Expert
44%(81 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 Sleeping Giant Ski Resort good for beginners?

Sleeping Giant 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.

Sleeping Giant Ski Resort Location

Sleeping Giant Ski Resort is located in the state of Wyoming, USA. This ski area is nearest the town of Cody, WY.

Address:
Cody, WY 82414 USA
View on Google Maps

Website:
skisg.com

GPS Coordinates:
44.52000, -109.84000

Getting to Sleeping Giant Mountain Resort

By Car: If you are driving, you would set your GPS to either the ski resort's name (Sleeping Giant Ski Resort), its coordinates of 44.52000, -109.84000 (latitude, longitude), or simply drive towards the town of Cody, WY 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 Sleeping Giant.

NameCodeCityDistance
Jackson Hole AirportJACJackson, WY77 mi
Bozeman Yellowstone International AirportBZNBozeman, MT108 mi
Billings Logan International AirportBILBillings, MT109 mi

There may also be much smaller regional airports next to Sleeping Giant 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 Sleeping Giant Ski Resort.

NameLocationSummitDifficulty Score™Distance
Red Lodge MountainRed Lodge, MT9,416 ft67%52 mi
Grand TargheeAlta, WY10,000 ft57%65 mi
Jackson Hole Mountain ResortJackson, WY10,450 ft85%84 mi
Snow KingJackson, WY7,808 ft60%86 mi

Sleeping Giant Ski Resort Mountain Stats

NameStatistic
Summit Elevation7,428 ft
Base Elevation6,619 ft
Vertical Drop809 ft
Trails49
(15% Beginner,  41% Intermediate,  44% Expert)
Lifts3
Skiable Acres184
Avg. Annual Snowfall250 inches
Sleeping Giant Ski Resort Mountain Stats
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