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Do you need a snowblower in Glenwood Springs, CO?

Your answer for Glenwood Springs

Gas single-stage

Glenwood Springs gets enough snow that shovelling it all is a real job, about 5.1 tons a winter on this driveway, but storms over 8 inches are uncommon.

Before you buy, check the intake height against the deepest storm above, and plan to clear before the city plow leaves its ridge of heavy slush at the end of the drive.

What a Glenwood Springs winter brings

Snow a year
39 in
Storms of 5 in or more
2.1 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
about once every 5 winters
Days with snow on the ground
56

Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. About what a typical snowy US city gets. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.

On a two car driveway that is about 5.1 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Glenwood Springs

  1. Oct0.7
  2. Nov4.4
  3. Dec10.8
  4. Jan13.7
  5. Feb6.3
  6. Mar2.4
  7. Apr0.6

Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.

Towns near Glenwood Springs

Glenwood Springs is number 37 of 53 Colorado towns here for snowfall; Steamboat Springs gets the most at 185 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Rifle, CO2327 inCordless single-stage
Steamboat Springs, CO70185 inTwo-stage snowblower
Grand Junction, CO7318 inA shovel is enough
Fruita, CO7922 inA shovel is enough
Montrose, CO7922 inA shovel is enough
Golden, CO114141 inTwo-stage snowblower

Where these numbers come from

Read next: Snowblowers on a gravel driveway and Single-stage or two-stage.

NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals from Glenwood Spgs #2, 2.4 miles from Glenwood Springs. A normal winter, not this winter's forecast. Snow is weighed at 6.24 pounds a cubic foot, fresh and fairly dry; wet spring snow can weigh three times that.