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Chestnut Mountain Resort Ski Resort

ILLINOIS / CHESTNUT MOUNTAIN RESORT

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Elevation
565'
Base
1,040'
Summit
475'
Vertical Drop
Trails
18
139 Acres
Lifts
10
3 Types
Snowfall
36"
Annual Snowfall
0.5"
Nov
8"
Dec
11"
Jan
13"
Feb
7"
Mar

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Important Dates

Projected opening date

Dec 05, 2025

Projected closing date

Mar 15, 2026

Projected Days Open

112

Days Open Last Year

87

Years Open

66

Average Snowfall

50"

Terrain

Beginners Runs
26%
Intermediate Runs
58%
Advanced Runs
16%
Runs in Total
18
Longest Run
0.2 mi
Skiable Terrain
139 ac
Night Skiing
139 ac
Snow Making
139 ac

Lifts

10

Quad Chairs
2
Triple Chairs
4
Surface Lifts
4

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Reviews

I went to school in platteville and held a season pass here for two years logging at least 20 days both years. Chestnut is easily the best in the area. You have to get to granite peak in Wausau to find a better midwest experience. I always find it annoying when ski hills have runs that terminate with a long fairly flat ski out at the bottom that serves no purpose other than to squeeze of couple extra feet out for their mountain vertical statistics. Chestnut has no such excessive run out, if its marked blue on the map you will be skiing blue caliber slope all the way to the bottom. I enjoy watching this place put beginners who think they can ski a midwest black in their place because they are accustomed to pizza-ing the hill and controlling speed in the long runout at the bottom, attempt that here and you'll get a face full of chain link fence (still better than ending up on the railroad track on the other side). Before you go, check the wind forecast, If winds are forecasted greater than 15mph out of the west consider going elsewhere because the hill faces west with the wide open mississippi river at the bottom so their is no wind protection. Lift lines here are pretty much non-existent. they open the blackhawk triple only when slight lift lines occur on the quads. In those two years and 40+ visits, I can count on one hand the number of times they were forced to open that triple, the lines just don't happen.

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