Soldier Mountain
Soldier Mountain Ski Resort is a ski area located in the state of Idaho in USA. The resort is in the town of Stanley, ID.
We recently ranked all of Idaho's ski resorts, so you can see where Soldier Mountain stacks up against all its nearby ski hills!
Season Passes
Soldier 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 Soldier Mountain around the resort. Check out the available options with the form below.
Soldier Mountain Mountain Resort Terrain Overview
Soldier Mountain has a total of 36 ski trails, which are serviced by 3 ski lifts, gondolas and/or trams. The amount of skiable area in this park is huge, with a maximum of 1,150 acres available to skiers. This area is equivalent to 465 hectares, 1.8 square miles, or 4.7 square kilometers.
Soldier Mountain's slopes see on average 450 inches (11.4 meters) of snowfall a year. That is almost 37 feet every year!
Total Runs
36
Lifts
3
Skiable Acres
1,150(5 km2)
Annual Snowfall
450"(1,143 cm)
Soldier Mountain Ski Resort Elevation
Soldier Mountain Ski Resort has a summit elevation of 7,150 feet, or 2,179 meters. However, not all of that elevation is able to be skied. The base of the ski slope sits at 5,740 feet above sea level, creating a ski hill that is 1,410 feet (430 meters) high. This is referred to as the slope's vertical drop - or a measure of how high the skiable hill is.
Soldier Mountain'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.
Summit Elevation
7,150'(2,179 m)
Vertical Drop
1,410'(430 m)
Base Elevation
5,740'(1,749 m)
Soldier Mountain Ski Resort Difficulty Level
Difficulty Score™
40.6out 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
Soldier Mountain has 1,150 total skiable acres, which can be broken down into the three main groups of difficulty: Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert.
Soldier Mountain is a beginner-friendly ski area, with about 25% of its trails as easy. However, it also has a fair share of more difficult runs - which account for the remaining 75%.
Beginner
25%(288 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
60%(690 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
15%(173 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 Soldier Mountain Ski Resort good for beginners?
Soldier 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 75% of its trails rated at or above intermediate.
Soldier Mountain Ski Resort Location
Soldier Mountain Ski Resort is located in the state of Idaho, USA. This ski area is nearest the town of Stanley, ID.
Address:
Stanley, ID 83278 USA
View on Google Maps
Website:
soldiermountain.com
GPS Coordinates:
44.71000, -115.09000
Getting to Soldier Mountain Mountain Resort
By Car: If you are driving, you would set your GPS to either the ski resort's name (Soldier Mountain Ski Resort), its coordinates of 44.71000, -115.09000 (latitude, longitude), or simply drive towards the town of Stanley, ID 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 Soldier Mountain.
| Name | Code | City | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friedman Memorial Airport | SUN | Hailey, ID | 92 mi |
| Boise Airport | BOI | Boise, ID | 97 mi |
| Lewiston Nez Perce County Airport | LWS | Lewiston, ID | 148 mi |
There may also be much smaller regional airports next to Soldier 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 Soldier Mountain Ski Resort.
| Name | Location | Summit | Difficulty Score™ | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Mountain | Ketchum, ID | 4,400 ft | 41% | 43 mi |
| Little Ski Hill | McCall, ID | 5,700 ft | 29% | 55 mi |
| Brundage Mountain | New Meadows, ID | 7,640 ft | 45% | 56 mi |
| Tamarack Resort | Tamarak, ID | 7,700 ft | 65% | 66 mi |
| Sun Valley | Ketchum, ID | 9,150 ft | 61% | 79 mi |
| Bogus Basin | Boise, ID | 7,590 ft | 60% | 82 mi |
| Snowhaven | Grangeville, ID | 5,600 ft | 10% | 94 mi |
Soldier Mountain Ski Resort Mountain Stats
| Name | Statistic |
|---|---|
| Summit Elevation | 7,150 ft |
| Base Elevation | 5,740 ft |
| Vertical Drop | 1,410 ft |
| Trails | 36 (25% Beginner, 60% Intermediate, 15% Expert) |
| Lifts | 3 |
| Skiable Acres | 1,150 |
| Avg. Annual Snowfall | 450 inches |