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Solitude Ski Resort

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Solitude Ski Resort is a popular ski destination located in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, less than an hour away from Salt Lake City. The resort is known for its wide runs, family-friendly atmosphere, and impressive annual snowfall, which averages almost 500 inches per season. The snow at Solitude is typically dry and powdery, making it excellent for skiing and snowboarding, when it is fresh, of course.

The ski season at Solitude typically runs from mid-November to mid-April, and the resort offers over 1,200 acres of skiable terrain for all levels of skiers and snowboarders to enjoy. Solitude Mountain Resort also has a terrain park for freestyle skiers and snowboarders to enjoy, featuring a variety of jumps, rails, and other features. In addition to its great skiing and snowboarding, Solitude also offers a variety of apres-ski amenities, including cozy mountain lodges, a variety of dining options, and a lively après-ski scene. However, Brighton does not offer night skiing.

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

Season Passes

Solitude is a part of the Ikon Ski Pass network. This allows you to buy one lift pass, and ski at all or most of the Ikon-sponsored slopes with it throughout the year, depending on the type of pass you bought.

Lodging Options

There are numerous options to stay at Solitude around the resort. Check out the available options with the form below.

Solitude Mountain Resort Terrain Overview

Solitude has a total of 65 ski trails, which are serviced by 7 ski lifts, gondolas and/or trams. The amount of skiable area in this park is huge, with a maximum of 1,200 acres available to skiers. This area is equivalent to 486 hectares, 1.9 square miles, or 4.9 square kilometers.

Solitude's slopes see on average 482 inches (14.7 meters) of snowfall a year. That is almost 40 feet every year!

Trails
Total Runs
65
Ski Lift
Lifts
7
Skier
Skiable Acres
1,200(5 km2)
Snow
Annual Snowfall
482"(14,691 cm)

Solitude Ski Resort Elevation

Solitude Ski Resort has a summit elevation of 10,035 feet, or 3,059 meters. However, not all of that elevation is able to be skied. The base of the ski slope sits at 7,988 feet above sea level, creating a ski hill that is 2,047 feet (624 meters) high. This is referred to as the slope's vertical drop - or a measure of how high the skiable hill is.

The summit of 10,035 feet makes this ski resort one of the highest in the country. The average ski slope summit is around 4,000 feet, so this is extremely high compared to its peers.

Mountain Summit
Summit Elevation
10,035'(3,059 m)
Vertical Drop
Vertical Drop
2,047'(624 m)
Mountain base
Base Elevation
7,988'(2,435 m)

Solitude Ski Resort Difficulty Level

Score
Difficulty Score™
53out of 100
←  EasyHard  →
Solitude 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 80% 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

Solitude has 1,200 total skiable acres, which can be broken down into the three main groups of difficulty: Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert.

Solitude is mostly a beginner-friendly ski area, with about 20% of its trails as easy. However, it also has its fair share of more difficult runs - which account for the remaining 80%.
Green Circle
Beginner
20%(240 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
50%(600 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
30%(360 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 Solitude Ski Resort good for beginners?

Solitude 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 80% of its trails rated at or above intermediate.

Solitude Ski Resort Location

Solitude Ski Resort is located in the state of Utah, USA. This ski area is nearest the town of Salt Lake City, UT.

Address:
Salt Lake City, UT 84121 USA
View on Google Maps

Website:
solitudemountain.com

GPS Coordinates:
40.63000, -111.59000

Getting to Solitude Mountain Resort

By Car: If you are driving, you would set your GPS to either the ski resort's name (Solitude Ski Resort), its coordinates of 40.63000, -111.59000 (latitude, longitude), or simply drive towards the town of Salt Lake City, UT 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 large airport has scheduled major airline service with millions of passengers per year. This type of airport always accepts international flights. Here are the closest large airport(s) to Solitude Ski Resort.

NameCodeCityDistance
Salt Lake City International AirportSLCSalt Lake City, UT23 mi

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 Solitude.

NameCodeCityDistance
Provo-Utah Lake International AirportPVUProvo, UT29 mi
Ogden Hinckley AirportOGDOgden, UT45 mi
Southwest Wyoming Regional AirportRKSRock Springs, WY147 mi

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

NameLocationSummitDifficulty Score™Distance
BrightonBrighton, UT10,500 ft53%2 mi
AltaSalt Lake City, UT10,550 ft53%3 mi
SnowbirdSnowbird, UT11,000 ft83%5 mi
Deer ValleyPark City, UT9,570 ft66%5 mi
Park City MountainPark City, UT10,000 ft76%7 mi
Woodward Park CityPark City, UT6,840 ft14%9 mi
SundanceSundance, UT8,250 ft58%15 mi
Nordic Valley (Wolf Mountain)Eden, UT6,400 ft42%32 mi
Eagle PointHuntsville, UT10,600 ft53%44 mi
Powder MountainCedar Valley, UT9,422 ft58%45 mi
Cherry Peak ResortRichmond, UT7,040 ft40%90 mi
Beaver MountainGarden City, UT8,860 ft43%93 mi
SnowbasinOrangeville, UT9,350 ft62%94 mi

Solitude Ski Resort Mountain Stats

NameStatistic
Summit Elevation10,035 ft
Base Elevation7,988 ft
Vertical Drop2,047 ft
Trails65
(20% Beginner,  50% Intermediate,  30% Expert)
Lifts7
Skiable Acres1,200
Avg. Annual Snowfall482 inches
Solitude Ski Resort Mountain Stats
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