Buck Hill Ski Resort

Buck Hill

Projected Opening: Dec 04
Projected Closing: Mar 21
Lifts: 10
Trails: 16
Skiable Terrain: 45 ac
Base: 919'
Summit: 1,225'
Vertical Drop: 309'
Average Snowfall: 9"

Snowfall

Annual Snowfall

Nov0"
Dec2"
Jan2"
Feb1"
Mar2"
Apr3"

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Buck Hill, located in Burnsville, MN, is a ski area just south of Minneapolis, one of three ski areas in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. Buck Hill offers skiing and snowboarding over 45 acres of skiable terrain and a 309’ vertical drop. Buck Hill is easily accessed via Interstate 35, and provides night skiing and tubing as well as regularly operated skiing and snowboarding. Buck Hill is best known for their ski-racing program, where world cup ski racers Lindsey Vonn and Kristina Koznick learned to ski and race from acclaimed coach Erich Sailer.

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Important Dates

Projected opening date
Dec 04, 2026
Projected closing date
Mar 21, 2027
Projected Days Open
112
Days Open Last Year
115
Years Open
72
Average Snowfall
9"

Terrain

Runs in Total

Longest Run

0.2 mi

Skiable Terrain

45 ac

Night Skiing

45 ac

Snow Making

45 ac

Lifts

Quad Chairs

Triple Chairs

Surface Lifts

Inside Scoop

Race timing equipment, ski and snowboard school, and rentals. One hundred percent snowmaking.

Reviews

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For some reason, we were unable to get tickets online. Emma, who was working the ticket line was soooooo helpful! In addition to helping so many others, she was there for us through the grueling process. It was very cumbersome process‼ It took us 30 minutes to enter all the info. It was 22 degrees o…

Mary Thieman

Dec 30, 2020