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Stevens Pass Ski Resort

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Stevens Pass Ski Resort is a popular ski destination located in the Cascade Mountains of Washington, near the town of Skykomish. The resort is approximately 1.5 hours from both Seattle and Everett, making it an easy day trip or weekend getaway for skiers and snowboarders in the Puget Sound area.

Stevens Pass is known for its extremely high snowfall amounts, averaging over 450 inches per season. The ski season at Stevens Pass typically runs from mid-December to early April. Stevens Pass also has three terrain parks featuring a variety of jumps, rails, and other features.

Stevens Pass does not have any lodging options onsite, but a couple nearby Cascade mountain towns have plenty of options, including Leavenworth and Skykomish.

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

Season Passes

Stevens Pass is a part of the Epic Ski Pass network. This allows you to buy one season pass, and ski at most of the Vail owned and operated slopes with it throughout the year. There are a handful of types of Epic lift ticket passes available, ranging from 3-7 days, to season-long.

Lodging Options

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

Stevens Pass Mountain Resort Terrain Overview

Stevens Pass has a total of 53 ski trails, which are serviced by 12 ski lifts, gondolas and/or trams. The amount of skiable area in this park is huge, with a maximum of 1,125 acres available to skiers. This area is equivalent to 455 hectares, 1.8 square miles, or 4.6 square kilometers.

Stevens Pass's slopes see on average 460 inches (14.0 meters) of snowfall a year. That is almost 38 feet every year!

Trails
Total Runs
53
Ski Lift
Lifts
12
Skier
Skiable Acres
1,125(5 km2)
Snow
Annual Snowfall
460"(14,021 cm)

Stevens Pass Ski Resort Elevation

Stevens Pass Ski Resort has a summit elevation of 5,845 feet, or 1,781 meters. However, not all of that elevation is able to be skied. The base of the ski slope sits at 4,061 feet above sea level, creating a ski hill that is 1,784 feet (544 meters) high. This is referred to as the slope's vertical drop - or a measure of how high the skiable hill is.

Stevens Pass'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
5,845'(1,781 m)
Vertical Drop
Vertical Drop
1,784'(544 m)
Mountain base
Base Elevation
4,061'(1,238 m)

Stevens Pass Ski Resort Difficulty Level

Score
Difficulty Score™
54.6out of 100
←  EasyHard  →
Stevens Pass 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 89% 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

Stevens Pass has 1,125 total skiable acres, which can be broken down into the three main groups of difficulty: Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert.

Stevens Pass is mostly a beginner-friendly ski area, with about 11% of its trails as easy. However, it also has its fair share of more difficult runs - which account for the remaining 89%.
Green Circle
Beginner
11%(124 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
54%(608 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
35%(394 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 Stevens Pass Ski Resort good for beginners?

Stevens Pass 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 89% of its trails rated at or above intermediate.

Stevens Pass Ski Resort Location

Stevens Pass Ski Resort is located in the state of Washington, USA. This ski area is nearest the town of Leavenworth, WA.

Address:
Leavenworth, WA 98826 USA
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Website:
stevenspass.com

GPS Coordinates:
47.75000, -121.09000

Getting to Stevens Pass Mountain Resort

By Car: If you are driving, you would set your GPS to either the ski resort's name (Stevens Pass Ski Resort), its coordinates of 47.75000, -121.09000 (latitude, longitude), or simply drive towards the town of Leavenworth, WA 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 Stevens Pass Ski Resort.

NameCodeCityDistance
Seattle–Tacoma International AirportSEASeattle, WA60 mi
Vancouver International AirportYVRVancouver, BC138 mi
Portland International AirportPDXPortland, OR165 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 Stevens Pass.

NameCodeCityDistance
Snohomish County (Paine Field) AirportPAEEverett, WA56 mi
Boeing Field King County International AirportBFISeattle, WA58 mi
Yakima Air Terminal McAllister FieldYKMYakima, WA86 mi

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

NameLocationSummitDifficulty Score™Distance
Ski BluewoodDayton, WA5,670 ft42%16 mi
The Summit at SnoqualmieSnoqualmie Pass, WA3,865 ft50%27 mi
Mission RidgeWenatchee, WA6,820 ft58%40 mi
Badger MountainEast Wenatchee, WA3,800 ft38%43 mi
Crystal MountainEnumclaw, WA7,012 ft63%61 mi
Loup Loup Ski BowlOkanogan, WA5,280 ft53%74 mi
White PassNaches, WA6,550 ft49%78 mi
Mt. BakerDeming, WA5,000 ft47%78 mi
Manning Park Ski AreaManning Park, BC5,868 ft51%91 mi

Stevens Pass Ski Resort Mountain Stats

NameStatistic
Summit Elevation5,845 ft
Base Elevation4,061 ft
Vertical Drop1,784 ft
Trails53
(11% Beginner,  54% Intermediate,  35% Expert)
Lifts12
Skiable Acres1,125
Avg. Annual Snowfall460 inches
Stevens Pass Ski Resort Mountain Stats
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