Alta weather

Alta is a town of a few hundred people at 8,600 feet at the top of Little Cottonwood Canyon, wrapped around one of the great ski areas of the world. Its forecast is a mountain forecast, not a valley one: Alta averages around 500 inches of snow a year, and this station's numbers are the ones that decide interlodge days, control work mornings, and whether the road down is a drive or an expedition.

There is one road out, SR-210, and this page pairs Alta's weather with that road's live verdict on purpose. When the forecast says a foot overnight and the verdict says closed for avalanche control, both are describing the same morning from two ends. Believe both, and enjoy the town; it has been snowed in before and has the soup to prove it.

Getting around: SR-210 down: 8 miles to the mouth, 20 minutes in free flow, and as long as it takes on the mornings this page exists for.