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Buck Hill

Location

Dakota County

United States

44° 43' 26.0472" N, 93° 16' 57.216" W

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US

General info:

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.

BASE: 918ft
SUMMIT: 1225ft
VERTICAL DROP: 309ft

NO. OF. LIFTS: 9
Gondolas: 0
Chairs: 3
Surface: 6

Costs:

DAY PASS ADULTS weekday: US$27.00
DAY PASS CHILDREN weekday: US$23.00
DAY PASS ADULTS weekend: US$39.00
DAY PASS CHILDREN weekend: US$30.00

We recommend to confirm the latest prices from the resorts website as the prices might have changed after last update.

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