United States
Lutsen Mountains


Plan the trip
The biggest area in the American Midwest, on the north shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota, with terrain spread across four separate peaks linked by a gondola across a river valley.
The vertical is the biggest in the region and the runs are longer than anywhere else in the Midwest, with lake effect snow off Superior supplementing the snowmaking.
The view out over the lake, which looks like the sea, is the memorable part. The north shore around it is forest and rock country with the Boundary Waters inland. Duluth is around two hours away and Minneapolis about four and a half.
- Marked pistes
- 27 km
- Lifts
- 8
- Summit
- 514 m
- Base
- 274 m
- Vertical drop
- 240 m
Pistes by difficulty
How the marked runs at Lutsen Mountains are graded.
- 5%Blue1 km
- 74%Red20 km
- 21%Black6 km
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Figures for Lutsen Mountains come from OpenSkiStats and OpenSkiMap/OpenStreetMap and can change between seasons. Check the operator before booking travel or lift passes. How the numbers are put together.