07:15 – 09:00
Dawn
$58
Gondola only · untracked grooming
Ninety minutes on cord nobody has touched. Walk away at nine with your morning back, or convert to a full day for $71 at the base kiosk.
Reserve dawnSAWTELLE RANGE · COLORADOEST. 1962OPENS NOV 26
Summitline is a one-road, eleven-lift mountain at the end of County Road 14. No village DJ, no slopeside conference hotel. Corduroy at 7:15, spruce glades by noon, and a parking lot you can still see your car from.
The whole mountain, drawn to scale, below
SNOW REPORT — FRI FEB 27 2027 · 06:04
MEASURED AT THE PATROL PLOT, 10,940′
14″
New · last 24 hr
87″
Base · mid-mountain
9/11
Lifts spinning
18°F
Summit · wind NW 12
01 THE PROFILE
One ridge, two bowls, and a gondola that runs the whole 3,400 in eleven minutes. The red lines below are the real lift alignments — watch them climb the hill.
8-passenger gondola · 2021
3,400′ vert · 11 min
base → summit, one seat
High-speed quad · 2014
1,720′ vert · 7 min
the front-side workhorse
Fixed-grip double · 1962
960′ vert · 9 min
the original. Ride it once
T-bar · 1987
470′ vert · 4 min
gate to the upper bowl
Fixed triple · 1998
940′ vert · 8 min
back bowl, no crowds
02 TERRAIN
| Run | Lift | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| Schoolmarm's Rest | Old Company | |
| First Light | Ptarmigan Express | |
| Powderhouse | Cirque Flyer | |
| Tin Roof | Old Company | |
| The Nunatak | Windrow | |
| Krummholz Glades | Krummholz | |
| Corvid's Ladder | Cirque Flyer | |
| Hushmoney Chute | Hike from Windrow |
◆◆ Corvid's Ladder and Hushmoney open by rope drop only, after patrol's morning control work. Patrol sweeps everything at 16:10.
03 A DAY UP HERE
Six times worth knowing. Everything else up here is negotiable — where you eat lunch is not, because there is exactly one hut and it has thirteen tables.
07:15
Cirque Flyer spins for Dawn ticket holders. The cats finished Powderhouse forty minutes ago; nobody has skied it yet. That's the whole product.
08:30
The maze is a five-minute walk from Lot A, even on a Saturday. We counted.
09:40
Lap Ptarmigan, or follow patrol's rope line into the Krummholz Glades where the new 14 inches is still standing up.
12:10
Krummholz Hut, 11,020 feet. A bowl is $9, a window seat is free, and there are no reservations because there is no phone.
15:45
The light goes long and orange across the Nunatak. Take Old Company down if your legs are done arguing.
16:10
The mountain goes back to being a mountain. It was one the whole time; we just borrowed it.
04 TICKETS
07:15 – 09:00
$58
Gondola only · untracked grooming
Ninety minutes on cord nobody has touched. Walk away at nine with your morning back, or convert to a full day for $71 at the base kiosk.
Reserve dawn08:30 – Last chair
$129
Window rate · $109 online 3+ days out
Every lift, both bowls, all 3,400 feet of it. Kids six and under ride free every single day — no blackout dates, no asterisk.
Buy a dayNov 26 – Apr 12
$1,190
Unlimited days · pays off at day ten
The price holds through October 15, then it's $1,390 and we won't apologize. Includes ten Dawn mornings and a guest day each February.
Hold the priceNO DYNAMIC PRICING. The board price is the price, Christmas week included. If a storm closes County Road 14, your ticket moves to any day this season — no forms, just show the same card.
05 GETTING UP HERE
Summitline
1 Tramway Road38 miles from Gunnison via CO-114 and County Road 14. THE LAST 9 MILES ARE PACKED SNOW ALL WINTER — AWD or carry chains past the hairpin at mile 9.
1,400 spots at the base. $10 WEEKENDS, FREE MIDWEEK. Lot A is 200 yards from the gondola maze; there is no Lot F because we never needed one.
The Corvid Stage leaves Gunnison at 6:05 / 7:05 / 8:05 every winter morning. $8 round trip, skis ride free, and the 16:30 down-valley run waits for patrol sweep.
Twenty-two rooms at the Tramway House, FROM $180, forty steps from the gondola. Everything else is in Gunnison — honestly, we like it that way.