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Cannon Mountain

Cannon Mountain Ski Resort

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Cannon Mountain Snow Totals
Cannon Mountain skiing by month:
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Core Strengths

Cannon Mountain
Travel Ease
47.6
Overall
45.1
Snow Volume
38.8
Overall
Overall PAF Score

Overall
Rank

161

Rank in
Region

16

Rank in
State

2

Cannon Mountain Snow Quality Across Full Winter
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Cannon Mountain Snowfall Last 10 Days (inches)

Powder
Forecast

Powder Forecast
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0"
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0"
Monday
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0"
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Tuesday
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True Snow: 163" per year
Snow Quality Rank

181

Accounts for resorts' snow quantity, moisture content, latitude, elevation, and slope aspects.

Dump Potential Rank

159

Cannon Mountain Ski Resort is ranked No. 159 in North America for its total snowfall during an average season.

Historical Powder Odds
Daily Lottery

% of days with more than 6" of snow

7.5%

Extended Stay

% of months with more than 90" of snow

0.5%

Drought Threat

% of months with less than 30" of snow

46.5%

*Special thanks to Tony Crocker and Bestsnow.net.

Dump Potential Rank

159

Cannon Mountain Ski Resort is ranked No. 159 in North America for its total snowfall during an average season.

Snow
Quality
Rank

181

Accounts for resorts' snow quantity, moisture content, latitude, elevation, and slope aspects.

Total Snow Score

This score accounts for total snow quantity, its moisture content, the resort's latitude, elevation, and its slope aspects, which affect total snow preservation.

Comparables

Cannon Mountain Ski Resort

Trail Breakdown

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Vertical Drop

2180 ft

4080 ft
Base Elevation: 1900 ft

Slope Aspects

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A Few Words On The Snow

If you're waiting for a powder day at Cannon Mountain Ski Resort, then you might have a long wait. Only 7.5% of winter days see more than 6 inches of snowfall, which means, on average, you'll have to spend 10 days or more mining the slopes at Cannon Mountain Ski Resort to score that one great day. It could be worse, however. You could be muskie fishing.

Skiing at Cannon Mountain Ski Resort is about getting outside, ripping up the slope, eating chili dogs and getting in as much vertical as you can. It's not about big dumps. And that's okay. This place is about honing your skills for that trip to Snowbird or Alaska. With only 0.5% of months at Cannon Mountain Ski Resort getting more than 90 inches of snow, this isn't the place to set up your powderhound shack.

Drought Potential

The snow at Cannon Mountain Ski Resort can disappear often enough that you may want to pack extra snow beads when taking a trip here. A good number of months, 46.5% to be exact, see less than 30 inches of snow. If you're banking on snow and you're boarding a plane for a week at Cannon Mountain Ski Resort, you should temper your expectations. This is a place where winter drought can grab hold of the weather pattern for long periods, as 46.5% of the winter months here see less than 30 inches of snow.

Getting to Cannon Mountain Ski Resort, if you're flying in

If you're okay with spending more than two hours in the car, then the trip from the Boston airport to the slopes, which takes 127 minutes, shouldn't bother you. If you're trying to be super efficient, look elsewhere.