Wachusett Mountain Ski Area

United States

Piste map

1,320 ft
Lifts

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

Summit
1,969 ft600 m
Base
1,030 ft314 m
Vertical
938 ft286 m
Named runs
25
Length of named runs
9.0 mi
Lifts
8

Runs by difficulty

  • Green 4 16% · 1.0 mi
  • Blue 16 64% · 6.6 mi
  • Black 5 20% · 1.3 mi

Longest run

4,180 ft

Ralph's Run

Steepest run

25%

Oxbow Chute

Steepest 100 m: 27%

Biggest drop

597 ft

Challenger

Runs lit at night

15

6.5 mi in all

The named runs add up to 9.0 mi.

Every named run

The named runs of Wachusett Mountain Ski Area, with their length, drop and gradients
Profile
10th Mountain Trail2,190 ft505 ft23%35%
Balance Rock1,860 ft325 ft18%21%
Challenger3,720 ft597 ft16%26%
Conifer Connection2,630 ft554 ft21%29%
Easy Rider510 ft39 ft8%11%
Frannie's Folly1,390 ft289 ft21%25%
Hitchcock Trail3,840 ft594 ft16%27%
Indian Summer2,330 ft289 ft12%16%
Look Mom1,940 ft351 ft18%27%
Lower 10th Mountain2,200 ft420 ft19%27%
Lower Balance Rock860 ft161 ft19%21%
Lower Conifer Connection2,140 ft384 ft18%28%
Lower Smith Walton2,440 ft440 ft18%27%
Mass Pike1,900 ft128 ft7%11%
Middle Balance Rock1,020 ft154 ft15%22%
Norm's Way730 ft151 ft20%25%
Ollie's Area320 ft20 ft
Oxbow Chute750 ft184 ft25%27%
Piece Of Cake1,260 ft240 ft19%23%
Ralph's Run4,180 ft597 ft14%22%
Roper's Road2,690 ft256 ft10%11%
Salamander Cutoff1,110 ft217 ft20%23%
Shenanigans1,010 ft210 ft21%25%
Smith Walton2,250 ft502 ft22%42%
Sundowner2,350 ft276 ft12%15%

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

  • 4Chairlifts
  • 4Magic carpets
Length of all lifts
2.3 mi
Rise of all lifts together
2,201 ft
The lifts of Wachusett Mountain Ski Area
Easy Rider CarpetDMagic carpet340 ft39 ft
Minuteman Express QuadAChairlift3,440 ft591 ft4
Monadnock Express QuadCChairlift2,270 ft295 ft4
Ollie's CarpetEMagic carpet230 ft20 ft
Polar CarpetFMagic carpet80 ft7 ft
Polar ExpressBChairlift4,200 ft932 ft6
Vickery Bowl TripleHChairlift1,260 ft282 ft3
Whittier's Teaching MeadowGMagic carpet340 ft36 ft

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

Places to eat and drink

Places mapped on OpenStreetMap in and around the resort. Opening times, menus and reviews are in the map apps.

Weather

Summit, 1,969 ft

Base, 1,030 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 mi40 mi 123456
Wachusett Mountain Ski Area beside the ski resorts nearest to it
Wachusett Mountain Ski Area938 ft1,969 ft259.0 mi8
1Ski Ward17.2 mi184 ft531 ft
2Nashoba Valley Ski Area22.6 mi226 ft423 ft172.7 mi12
3Crotched Mountain Ski & Ride35.3 mi879 ft1,916 ft
4Granite Gorge Ski Area36.6 mi499 ft1,312 ft
5McIntyre Ski Area41.9 mi161 ft512 ft121.3 mi5
6Brattleboro Ski Hill42.9 mi161 ft587 ft

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

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