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Mount Equinox (Skyline Drive)

8464.0 m · net rise 970.3 m · total ascent 980.9 m · overall 11.5% · confidence: high · Sunderland · Vermont ·

Shape: sustained — 29% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 978 m.

Matches: Mt. Equinox Uphill (Gear Up for Lyme charity hillclimb) — Long-running race up Skyline Drive.

Gradient ladder what do windows mean?

WindowMaximumLocated at
2 m (diagnostic)29%6420–6422 m
3 m (diagnostic)27%6419–6422 m
5 m22%5573–5578 m
10 m22%5569–5579 m
20 m20.4%5569–5589 m
25 m20.0%5569–5594 m
50 m18.0%5564–5614 m
100 m16.4%5046–5146 m

Map

Check this route yourself: Google Maps route via their router · Street View at the base where coverage exists · geojson.io our exact measured line · OpenTopoMap

This climb's data: OCL JSON — the full gradient ladder, quality flags and provenance in the OpenClimb Ladder format.

Measured, not vetted. This page records what the laser record shows about the road's shape — nothing more. Nobody has necessarily ridden or inspected this road for the survey, and a page here is not a recommendation and no guarantee that the road is open, surfaced, rideable or safe. Gates, private sections, missing rights of way and hazards do not show up in elevation data. Check access and conditions on the ground and make your own judgment.

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Mount Equinox (Skyline Drive) LiDAR hillshade map with contours

Profile

The profile and gradient chart share one position — move your pointer over them and the marker follows. Colors are the gradient bands; the shaded span is the steepest 25 m.

Mount Equinox (Skyline Drive) elevation profile
Mount Equinox (Skyline Drive) rolling gradient profile
 

Reported values vs. measurement

SourceClaimEvidenceBest-matching window
Mt. Equinox Uphill (race materials)12%event_description100 m (-4.4 pp)

Measurement card

ElevationUSGS 3DEP (The National Map) — USGS 3DEP 1 m DEM, VT_Statewide_A23 (collected 2023)
Resolution / CRS1.0 m grid, EPSG:26918; sampled every 1.0 m, bilinear interpolation
Tilesx65y478, x65y479
Road centreline/mnt/HC_Volume_106727764/site-corpus-fresh/us/mount-equinox-skyline-drive/mount-equinox-skyline-drive.geojson
Quality statusmeasurement confidence A; no review flags; no caveated windows
AnalysisOCL 0.1.0, analysis 0.1.0, run canopy-all-260903, calculated 2026-09-03

Provenance

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  "analysis_version": "0.1.0",
  "sample_interval_m": 1.0,
  "interpolation": "bilinear",
  "smoothing": "none",
  "gradient_windows_m": [
    5.0,
    10.0,
    20.0,
    25.0,
    50.0,
    100.0
  ],
  "diagnostic_windows_m": [
    2.0,
    3.0
  ],
  "elevation_crs": "EPSG:26918",
  "elevation_resolution_m": 1.0,
  "elevation_tiles": [
    "data/cache/usa/vt/USGS_1M_18_x65y478_VT_Statewide_A23.tif",
    "data/cache/usa/vt/USGS_1M_18_x65y479_VT_Statewide_A23.tif"
  ],
  "calculated_at": "2026-09-03T19:07:55+00:00",
  "road_source": "/mnt/HC_Volume_106727764/site-corpus-fresh/us/mount-equinox-skyline-drive/mount-equinox-skyline-drive.geojson",
  "run_id": "canopy-all-260903",
  "elevation_provider": "USGS 3DEP (The National Map)",
  "elevation_licence": "Public domain \u2014 USGS 3DEP 1 m DEM, courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey",
  "elevation_dataset": "USGS 3DEP 1 m DEM, VT_Statewide_A23 (collected 2023)",
  "elevation_tile_ids": [
    "x65y478",
    "x65y479"
  ],
  "climb_origin": "discovered",
  "canopy_check": "unavailable \u2014 EPT corridor failed: VT_Statewide_2_A23: no EPT nodes intersect the corridor; VT_Statewide_1_A23: no EPT nodes intersect the corridor",
  "license": "ODbL-1.0",
  "license_url": "https://howsteep.org/licensing.html"
}