Terrain Structure and Crowd Movement
Dodge Ridge covers roughly 850 acres and is served by seven chairlifts, one t-bar, and three newbie carpets. The resort is split into three fundamental areas: the entrance facet, the Prospector space, and the bottom Boulder Creek Canyon. The entrance facet is a little bit of a multitude of lifts, with Chairs 1-6 every serving a handful of trails for various ability ranges. One can unravel Prospector from the tops of Chairs 1, 4, and 5, which every finish on the ridge at across the similar elevation as one another. However whereas the frontside lifts might sound a bit complicated on paper, the setup makes much more sense in particular person due to intuitive signage.
The Prospector zone and again facet are quite a bit less complicated to determine. The Prospector chair (Chair 7) runs from the mid-mountain lodge to the summit, and whereas it’s technically a mid-mountain carry, the chair serves about the identical quantity of terrain as the whole entrance facet. A number of the runs (specifically Stagecoach and Separator) do prolong under the bottom of Chair 7, making for a two-lift journey to lap these runs. Given the amount of runs funneling into Chair 7, strains can construct up right here on busy days, though they’re nothing in comparison with what you’d see at greater resorts.
The again facet is served by a quad chair and a t-bar, although that floor carry has a finicky schedule. The quad carry does a superb job of retaining strains transferring easily, and the simple carry setup makes getting round fairly simple.
