Snow totals: Colorado Springs area gets buried under heavy spring snow
Colorado Springs and the Pikes Peak region was hit with heavy round of snow Saturday, May 21, 2022, that was too heavy for many tree limbs. Several parts of the region had more than a foot of snow by Saturday morning.
The Centennial State received a late-season snowstorm that began Friday and dropped wet, heavy snow into Saturday. Here are 24-hour snow totals from across the state as of 6 p.m. Saturday according to the National Weather Service snowfall reports.
- Air Force Academy: 13 inches
- Alma: 17 inches
- Aspen Park: 15.5 inches
- Aspen Springs: 18.6 inches
- Aurora 7.5 inches
- Berthoud Pass: 15.6 inches
- Black Hawk: 11 inches
- Black Forest: 18.2 inches
- Boulder: 12.5 inches
- Canon City: 10 inches
- Cascade: 14 inches
- Castle Rock: 14.5 inches
- Colorado Springs: 12 inches
- Copper Mountain: 16.8 inches
- Crescent Village: 13 inches
- Cripple Creek: 20 inches
- Crook: 8 inches
- Denver International Airport: 2.3 inches
- Elbert: 15 inches
- Elizabeth: 15 inches
- Estes Park: 14 inches
- Evergreen: 10.3 inches
- Fairplay: 17.7 inches
- Florissant: 15.5 inches
- Fountain: 10.5 inches
- Franktown: 9 inches
- Genesee: 17 inches
- Golden: 14.5 inches
- Highlands Ranch: 8.5 inches
- Ken Caryl: 17.7 inches
- Lafayette: 5.7 inches
- Larkspur: 6 inches
- Leadville: 9.8 inches
- Longmont: 5 inches
- Louisville: 6.5 inches
- Manitou Springs: 10.6 inches
- Monument: 17.5 inches
- Nederland: 16.5 inches
- Peterson Air Force Base: 10.3 inches
- Ponderosa Park: 13 inches
- Pueblo: 5.5 inches
- Pueblo West: 7.5 inches
- St. Mary’s Glacier: 18 inches
- Steamboat Springs: 6 inches
- Winter Park: 7.3 inches
- Woodland Park: 16 inches
Colorado Springs and the Pikes Peak region was hit with heavy round of snow Saturday, May 21, 2022, that was too heavy for many tree limbs. Several parts of the region had more than a foot of snow by Saturday morning.
Nearly a foot of snow had fallen on the west side of Colorado Springs on Saturday morning, May 21, 2022.
Snow weighs down branches on trees bordering Acacia Park in Colorado Springs Saturday morning.
A heavy, wet snow downed tree branches around Colorado Springs Friday night.
Woodland Park recorded 16 inches of snow Friday night/Saturday morning. Photo by Debbie Kelley, The Gazette.
Tony Alexander is surrounded by fallen tree branches Saturday while he shovels the sidewalk in front of his house after a late-season snowstorm dropped more than 6 inches of wet snow on Colorado Springs.
Diane Howard, left, and Dale Cline walk around a large tree limb that fell as a result of heavy snow in front of their house on Saturday.
Dale Cline, left, and Tony Alexander, are framed by a large downed tree limb as they shovel the sidewalk in front of their houses after a late-season snowstorm dropped more than six inches of wet heavy snow on Colorado Springs on Saturday, May 21. (Parker Seibold / The Gazette)
A bulldozer moves a large tree limb that fell as a result of heavy, wet snow from the road on Saturday, May 21. (Parker Seibold / The Gazette)
Tony Alexander, framed by a large downed tree limb , watches snow fall from branches above as he shovels the sidewalk in front of his houses after a late-season snowstorm dropped more than six inches of wet heavy snow on Colorado Springs. (Parker Seibold / The Gazette)
More than 6 inches of snow fell in Colorado Springs during a late-season snow storm. As a result of the heavy wet snow, tree branches and large limbs covered the roads on Saturday morning.
Nearly a foot of snow had fallen on the west side of Colorado Springs on Saturday morning, May 21, 2022.
Nearly a foot of snow had fallen on the west side of Colorado Springs on Saturday morning, May 21, 2022.