Skiing Vail in 2026/27: Dates, Terrain and Rentals

Vail is set to open on November 13, 2026. Here is what Vail (Colorado) has actually published for the 2026/27 season — the dates, the terrain and where its own snow report and webcams live — with nothing filled in where the resort has stayed silent.

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When Vail opens in 2026/27

November 13, 2026 — published by Vail Resorts, in its August 18 opening-date release.

No closing date has been published for 2026/27. North American resorts normally announce the opening day in late summer and leave the closing day to the snowpack, so treat any April or May date you read elsewhere as last season's.

Our dates come from the resort's own pages or from its group's press release, last checked on September 17, 2026. The full directory, resort by resort, is at ski season opening dates, and the announcements are covered in the 2026/27 US opening dates round-up.

The mountain in numbers

• Skiable terrain: 5,317 acres
• Named runs: 278
• Lifts: 32
• Base to summit: 2,475 m to 3,527 m (about 8,120 ft to 11,570 ft)

Every figure above is one Vail publishes itself; where the resort does not publish something, we leave the line out rather than fill it in. Base and summit are the lowest and highest lift-served points of the whole resort — at a multi-mountain resort they can belong to different peaks, so the gap between them is not the vertical drop of any single run. The resort's own vertical-drop figure is on its stats page.

How the terrain splits by ability

Vail grades its terrain as Beginner 18%, Intermediate 29%, Advanced 53%. Those are the resort's own categories: North America grades by difficulty relative to the mountain, so an "advanced" run here is not the same thing as a red run in the Alps.

Snow report, webcams and trail map

The resort publishes its own conditions: Vail snow report and Vail webcams. On Caranva you also have live webcams for Vail, the interactive trail map and the full Vail resort page with lift pass information.

Renting skis or a board

Caranva lists ski and snowboard rental for Vail at ski rental in Vail, with the sizes, the gear grades and the terms shown on the page itself. If you would rather compare resorts first, the whole country is at ski rental in the United States.