Buttermilk

United States

Piste map

2,640 ft
Lifts

Runs and lifts from OpenStreetMap as of 27 September 2026. Select a run or a lift to see its figures.

Summit
9,882 ft3,012 m
Base
7,881 ft2,402 m
Vertical
2,001 ft610 m
Named runs
75
Length of named runs
34.7 mi
Lifts
11

Runs by difficulty

  • Green 12 16% · 8.6 mi
  • Blue 32 43% · 15.5 mi
  • Black 21 28% · 9.2 mi
  • Double black 9 12% · 1.4 mi
  • No grade mapped 1 1% · 0.1 mi

Longest run

3.0 mi

Homestead Road

Steepest run

67%

P-Chutes #2

Steepest 100 m: 74%

Biggest drop

1,936 ft

Homestead Road

The named runs add up to 34.7 mi.

Every named run

The named runs of Buttermilk, with their length, drop and gradients
Profile
Audacious580 ft371 ft64%68%
Baby Doe820 ft135 ft17%20%
Bear3,430 ft591 ft17%30%
Big Face Hollow1.1 mi1,168 ft21%35%
Blue Grouse1,090 ft217 ft20%22%
Bob's Glade1,000 ft446 ft45%58%
Buckskin4,690 ft942 ft20%32%
Camp Bird3,710 ft810 ft22%32%
Columbine1,070 ft226 ft21%22%
Eagle Hill1,500 ft315 ft21%25%
Eagle Hill660 ft135 ft21%23%
Epicure660 ft312 ft48%63%
Exibition4,590 ft932 ft20%29%
Friedl's1,440 ft400 ft28%35%
Golden Barrel800 ft226 ft28%32%
Golden Horn1,950 ft581 ft30%43%
Golden Horn Woods790 ft335 ft42%57%
Government1,890 ft417 ft22%29%
Homestead Road3.0 mi1,936 ft12%20%
Jacob's Ladder3,440 ft548 ft16%21%
Javelin3,500 ft1,063 ft30%42%
Jerome1,940 ft459 ft24%38%
Jerome Bowl
Larkspur3,660 ft705 ft19%25%
Limelight530 ft249 ft47%57%
Little Teaser1,570 ft266 ft17%40%
Lover's Lane1,800 ft236 ft13%20%
Lower Golden Horn680 ft381 ft56%64%
Lower Golden Horn #2730 ft387 ft53%65%
Lower Larkspur1,560 ft384 ft25%31%
Lower Savio1,860 ft384 ft21%30%
Lower Stein1,710 ft509 ft30%64%
Magic Carpet2,090 ft384 ft18%29%
Memory Lane3,410 ft833 ft25%33%
Midway Ave1,190 ft302 ft25%32%
No Problem1,880 ft459 ft24%31%
Nugget4,070 ft610 ft15%31%
Oregon Trail (To Tiehack)4,310 ft295 ft7%17%
P-Chutes
P-Chutes #2410 ft272 ft67%74%

Drop and gradients are read from a terrain model every 20 m along each run. Steepest is the steepest 100 m of a run. Runs shorter than 100 m have no gradient, and ~ marks a length estimated past a piece of the run mapped the other way.

Lifts

  • 7Chairlifts
  • 1Drag lifts
  • 1Rope tows
  • 2Magic carpets
Length of all lifts
7.6 mi
Rise of all lifts together
8,967 ft
The lifts of Buttermilk
ExhibitionChairlift1.6 mi1,909 ft49 mins
Five TreesChairlift4,090 ft725 ft2
Panda PeakChairlift1,030 ft102 ft
Ski School LiftDrag lift490 ft30 ft
Ski School Magic CarpetMagic carpet110 ft10 ft
Summit ExpressChairlift1.8 mi1,837 ft4
ThunderbowlChairlift3,980 ft1,437 ft39 mins
Tiehack ExpressChairlift1.3 mi1,677 ft47 mins
West Buttermilk ExpressChairlift1.1 mi1,188 ft45 mins

Seats and ride times only where OpenStreetMap records them. Rise is the height between the stations, from a terrain model.

Weather

Summit, 9,882 ft

Base, 7,881 ft

Forecast by MET Norway for the heights of the summit and the base, for the next two days. Times are in your time zone.

Ski resorts nearby

20 mi 123456
Buttermilk beside the ski resorts nearest to it
Buttermilk2,001 ft9,882 ft7534.7 mi11
1Aspen Highlands2.2 mi3,481 ft11,572 ft15262.6 mi10
2Aspen Mountain3.3 mi3,297 ft11,257 ft14839.3 mi5
3Aspen Snowmass4.3 mi4,400 ft12,516 ft12885.4 mi18
4Crested Butte Mountain Resort20.7 mi2,313 ft11,444 ft25145.6 mi15
5Sunlight Mountain Resort28.6 mi1,713 ft9,849 ft7723.8 mi3
6Dutch Henry Ski Hill30.5 mi82 ft10,026 ft

Distances in a straight line. A dot stands where a figure is not mapped yet.

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