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The Monarch Mountain Lodge is located three miles (5 km) east of the ski area in the town of Garfield, Colorado. The resort is named after Monarch Pass and the associated Monarch Mountain. Monarch Pass and Monarch Mountain themselves are named after the 19th-century town of Monarch, which was razed by the CDOT to make way for US Route 50 .
Colorado offers many ski resorts. The following table compares their various sizes, runs, lifts, and snowfall: ... Skiable area (acres) Top elevation (feet) Base ...
The pass is widely considered one of the most scenic in Colorado, offering a panoramic view of the southern end of the Sawatch Range from the summit. [3] During the summer, an aerial tram from the parking lot at the summit carries visitors to the top of Monarch Ridge above the pass (at approximately 12,000 feet (3,700 m) above sea level), allowing a wider view of the surrounding peaks.
A foot or more of snow can fall across some of the higher terrain in southern Colorado and northeastern New Mexico, with an AccuWeather Local StormMax™ of 60 inches.
Old Monarch Pass [h] 11,375 feet 3,467 m ... Colorado Travel Map; Colorado highway conditions; Colorado Tourism Office; History Colorado; United States Geological Survey.
Chapman Hill Ski Area [1] Copper Mountain; Cranor Ski Area [2] Crested Butte; Echo Mountain (ski area) (formerly Squaw Pass) Eldora; Granby Ranch; Hesperus Ski Area; Hoedown Hill; Howelsen Hill; Kendall Mountain; Keystone; Lake City Ski Hill [citation needed] [3] Lee's Ski Hill; Loveland; Monarch Mountain; Powderhorn Resort
Of the 503 ski areas, 390 are "public U.S. ski areas that run chairlifts" and "113 either run only surface lifts, or are not open to the general public", says to Storm Skiing. [5] Of the 390 public, chairlift areas, 233 or 60% have joined one or more United States–based, international multi-mountain ski pass , according to Storm Skiing.