| Granite Peak Ski Resort | |
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| Location | Rib Mountain, WI |
| Nearest city | Wausau, WI |
| Top elevation | 1950 ft. |
| Base elevation | 1250 ft. |
| Runs | 74 |
| Lift system | 8 total (1 high-speed six chair, 3 triple chairs, 2 double chairs, 1 handle tow, 1 magic carpet) |
| Terrain parks | 6 |
| Snowmaking | 100% |
| Night skiing | 73% |
| Web site | Official site |
Granite Peak Ski Resort is located just south of Wausau, Wisconsin, United States, features 74 snow runs and 6 terrain parks as of 2011 and boasts 700 vertical feet. Its vertical rise makes it the 3rd tallest ski area in the Midwest after Mount Bohemia (900 ft.) and Lutsen Mountains (825 ft.) It is ten miles north-northeast of Central Wisconsin Airport.
When the ski area opened on the slopes of Rib Mountain 1937, it was one of the first ski areas in North America. Stowe in Vermont had opened a few years earlier in 1934. Sun Valley in Idaho had become the nation's first ski area in the western states in 1936.