Whistler Blackcomb
Two giant mountains, one village, and the biggest ski area in North America.
Difficulty mix
On the mountain
- Night skiing — 1 floodlit runs
- Tree skiing — 58 gladed runs
- 53 mogul runs
Bonvo Score breakdown
Computed from mapped terrain data — no editorial opinion, no pay-to-rank. How the score works
Skiing Whistler Blackcomb, told properly
Whistler Blackcomb is skiing at continental scale: two full-size mountains — over 8,000 acres between them — rising a vertical mile above a pedestrian village that never quite goes to sleep. Whistler Mountain opened in 1966, born of an (initially failed) Olympic bid; Blackcomb followed in 1980, and their decades-long rivalry drove both to greatness before they merged into a single super-resort. In 2010 the Olympic dream finally landed, with the Vancouver Games' alpine events run on Whistler's Creekside flank.
The terrain is famously complete. Storm after Pacific storm buries the alpine bowls — Whistler Bowl, Harmony, Symphony, the Blackcomb Glacier — while mid-mountain cruisers roll for kilometres through old-growth forest, which is exactly where you want to be when the coastal weather closes in. Linking it all is the Peak 2 Peak gondola, whose 3 km unsupported span between the two summits remains an engineering landmark.
Add a genuinely walkable village of patios, breweries and après institutions, and you get the resort that routinely tops North American rankings — and earns it.
Signature runs
Peak to Creek
Whistler's monster: roughly 11 km and over 1,500 vertical metres from the peak to Creekside in a single run.
Blackcomb Glacier
A short bootpack through a col opens onto a huge, mellow glacier bowl — big-mountain scenery at intermediate pitch.
Spanky's Ladder chutes
Blackcomb's expert playground — a bootpack gains four steep, rocky bowls that hold the resort's most serious lines.
7th Heaven
Sun-soaked alpine cruising on Blackcomb's south side, with views across to Black Tusk on clear days.
Local tips
- On storm days ski the trees (Rock'n'Roll zone, Crystal chair) — the alpine will be shut or blind anyway.
- Beat the gondola line by starting from Creekside, where the Olympic downhill finished.
- The first hour after the alpine reopens post-storm is the best skiing on the continent; be standing at Peak or Glacier chair.
- Dusty's in Creekside is the unpretentious après; the Longhorn at the base is the circus.
Good to know
- Whistler Blackcomb is the largest ski resort in North America at more than 8,000 acres.
- The Peak 2 Peak gondola's 3.03 km unsupported span set a world record when it opened in 2008.
- Whistler hosted the alpine skiing events of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.
Slope-by-slope analysis
Every run measured from elevation-aware map geometry: true length, vertical drop, average gradient and a 0–10 slope score that rewards long, sustained descents.
| Run | Difficulty | Length | Vertical | Avg grade | Slope score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green Line | Easy | 4.5 km | 539 m | 11.8% | 6.4 |
| Sunset Boulevard | Easy | 3.9 km | 421 m | 10.7% | 5.4 |
| Peak to Creek - Lower | Intermediate | 3.8 km | 1048 m | 27.4% | 7.9 |
| Highway 86 | Intermediate | 3.4 km | 519 m | 15.1% | 5.7 |
| Glacier Road | Advanced | 3.4 km | 499 m | 14.8% | 5.5 |
| Franz's | Intermediate | 3.2 km | 930 m | 29.4% | 7.5 |
| Encore Ridge | Advanced | 2.6 km | 473 m | 17.9% | 5.1 |
| Harmony Ridge | Intermediate | 2.5 km | 523 m | 21.3% | 5.3 |
| Burnt Stew Trail | Easy | 2.4 km | 365 m | 15% | 4.3 |
| Southside Green | Easy | 2.4 km | 335 m | 14.1% | 4.1 |
| Sidewinder | Easy | 2.4 km | 204 m | 8.7% | 3.2 |
| Glacier Road | Intermediate | 2.4 km | 254 m | 10.8% | 3.6 |
| Glacier Drive | Advanced | 2.3 km | 676 m | 29.4% | 6.3 |
| Crystal Road | Easy | 2.3 km | 285 m | 12.5% | 3.7 |
| Jeff's Ode To Joy | Intermediate | 2.3 km | 473 m | 21% | 5.0 |
| Dave Murray Downhill - Lower | Advanced | 2.2 km | 586 m | 26.4% | 5.7 |
| Cloud Nine | Intermediate | 2.2 km | 566 m | 26.1% | 5.6 |
| Crystal Traverse | Intermediate | 2.2 km | 316 m | 14.6% | 3.9 |
| Expressway | Easy | 2.1 km | 279 m | 13% | 3.6 |
| 7th Avenue | Easy | 2.1 km | 204 m | 9.6% | 3.1 |
| Panorama | Intermediate | 2.1 km | 544 m | 25.6% | 5.4 |
| Last Resort | Easy | 2.1 km | 185 m | 8.9% | 2.9 |
| Expressway | Easy | 2.1 km | 198 m | 9.6% | 3.0 |
| Olympic - Lower | Easy | 2.0 km | 335 m | 16.5% | 4.0 |
| Cruiser | Intermediate | 2.0 km | 644 m | 32.3% | 6.2 |
| Ridge Runner | Intermediate | 1.9 km | 484 m | 25% | 5.0 |
| Pika's Traverse | Easy | 1.9 km | 268 m | 14.1% | 3.5 |
| Ego Bowl | Easy | 1.9 km | 406 m | 21.5% | 4.5 |
| Pony Trail - Upper | Easy | 1.9 km | 300 m | 15.9% | 3.7 |
| Blackcomb Home Run | Intermediate | 1.9 km | 195 m | 10.5% | 2.9 |
| Poop Chutes | Expert | 1.8 km | 691 m | 39.1% | 6.6 |
| Garbonzo Express Chairlift Line | Advanced | 1.7 km | 587 m | 33.8% | 5.8 |
| Jersey Cream | Intermediate | 1.7 km | 370 m | 22.1% | 4.2 |
| Hugh's Heaven | Intermediate | 1.7 km | 563 m | 33.9% | 5.7 |
| Olympic - Upper | Easy | 1.6 km | 358 m | 22% | 4.1 |
| Easy Out | Easy | 1.6 km | 289 m | 17.8% | 3.6 |
| Peak To Creek, Peak to Creek - Upper | Intermediate | 1.6 km | 461 m | 29.2% | 4.9 |
| Harmony Piste | Intermediate | 1.5 km | 267 m | 17.5% | 3.4 |
| Espresso | Intermediate | 1.5 km | 481 m | 32% | 5.1 |
| Ptarmigan | Intermediate | 1.5 km | 440 m | 29.6% | 4.8 |
+ 764 more mapped runs and connectors — all of them in the free 3D map in the Bonvo Ski app.
Lift network
32 mapped lifts, moving up to 55,735 skiers per hour.
| Lift | Type | Capacity/h | Ride time | Length | Vertical |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackcomb Gondola | Gondola | 4,000 | 13 min | 3.9 km | 1175 m |
| Emerald 6 Express | Chairlift | 3,600 | 7 min | 1.8 km | 420 m |
| Big Red 6 Express | Chairlift | 3,600 | 8 min | 2.4 km | 553 m |
| Harmony 6 Express Chairlift | Chairlift | 3,600 | 6 min | 1.6 km | 520 m |
| Jersey Cream Express | Chairlift | 3,200 | 5 min | 1.3 km | 367 m |
| Creekside Gondola | Gondola | 3,000 | 7 min | 2.0 km | 642 m |
| Whistler Village Gondola | Gondola | 2,800 | 18 min | 4.8 km | 1149 m |
| Excelerator Express | Chairlift | 2,800 | 6 min | 1.6 km | 506 m |
| 7th Heaven Express | Chairlift | 2,800 | 6 min | 1.7 km | 587 m |
| Garbanzo Express | Chairlift | 2,800 | 7 min | 2.0 km | 657 m |
| Excalibur Gondola | Gondola | 2,600 | 7 min | 2.2 km | 447 m |
| Glacier Express | Chairlift | 2,500 | 6 min | 1.8 km | 596 m |
| Peak Express | Chairlift | 2,500 | 4 min | 935 m | 398 m |
| Catskinner Express | Chairlift | 2,400 | 4 min | 1.1 km | 319 m |
| Symphony Express | Chairlift | 2,400 | 7 min | 2.1 km | 487 m |
| Crystal Ridge Express | Chairlift | 2,400 | 6 min | 1.6 km | 531 m |
| Peak 2 Peak Gondola | Gondola | 2,050 | 11 min | 4.4 km | 610 m |
| Fitzsimmons Express Chairlift | Chairlift | 1,850 | 6 min | 1.7 km | 338 m |
| Olympic Chair | Chairlift | 1,800 | 5 min | 750 m | 122 m |
| Magic Chair | Chairlift | 1,630 | 6 min | 606 m | 92 m |
| Franz's Chair | Chairlift | 1,405 | 8 min | 1.2 km | 270 m |
| Showcase T-Bar | T-bar | — | — | 472 m | 118 m |
| T-Bar 2 | Drag lift | — | — | 695 m | 178 m |
| Blackcomb Kids Carpet | Magic carpet | — | — | 51 m | 8 m |
| Base2 Carpet | Magic carpet | — | — | 66 m | 8 m |
| It Happens Carpet | Magic carpet | — | — | 33 m | 2 m |
| Adult Supercarpet | Magic carpet | — | — | 185 m | 18 m |
| Never Ever Flats Carpet | Magic carpet | — | — | 47 m | 5 m |
| Creekside Carpet | Magic carpet | — | — | 38 m | 8 m |
| Chateau Carpet | Magic carpet | — | — | 37 m | 4 m |
Whistler Blackcomb — quick answers
How many ski runs does Whistler Blackcomb have?
Whistler Blackcomb has 804 mapped downhill runs totalling about 365.1 km of pistes, with the longest single run measuring 4.5 km.
What is the vertical drop at Whistler Blackcomb?
The mapped skiable terrain spans 1691 m of vertical, from 654 m at the base to 2345 m at the top.
How many lifts does Whistler Blackcomb have?
Whistler Blackcomb operates 32 mapped lifts moving up to 55,735 skiers per hour.
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