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Snowy Range Ski and Recreation Area is a small ski area in southeastern Wyoming, located about five miles from the town of Centennial in Medicine Bow National Forest. At 32 miles away, it is the closest ski area to Laramie , home of the University of Wyoming .
The range is home to Snowy Range Ski Area. [4] [5] The highest peak in the range is Clark Peak (12,960 feet (3,950 m)), located in the Rawah Wilderness along the southern end of the range in Northern Colorado. [6] [7] Much of the range is located within the Medicine Bow National Forest in Wyoming.
The Snowy Range Ski Area, about 30 miles (48 km) west of Laramie off Wyoming Highway 130, offers downhill skiing and snowboarding on 27 trails ranging in difficulty from beginner to expert. [46] Laramie is a center for mountain biking. Mountain bike trails meander through forests in the Laramie Range and the Snowy Range.
Official weather stations are usually located in populated places and snowfall statistics for isolated and unpopulated areas are often not recorded. Mount Rainier and Mount Baker in Washington are the snowiest places in the United States which have weather stations, receiving 645 inches (1,640 cm) annually on average.
Areas of interest include the Snowy Range where the highest peak is Medicine Bow Peak at 12,013 feet (3,662 m) and is visible from Snowy Range Pass, 10,847 ft (3,306 m), on Wyoming highway 130. The Encampment River , Huston Park , Savage Run and Platte River Wildernesses are all located within the Medicine Bow portion of the National Forest.
In Princeton, Massachusetts, 60 miles northwest of Boston, Wachusett Mountain Ski Area opened for the first time this season. Boston was receiving its first measurable snow, although it measured ...
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.
Snowy Range: Centennial: Wyoming: 9,663 8,798 865 250 27 5 245 September 28, 2019 [111] ... Big Tupper Ski Area Tupper Lake New York: December 9, 2019 [353] Hickory ...