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First Snow 2026 — The Season's First Snowfall, Live
Snow is falling today in the Black Hills, Alaska and Colorado ski country. Watch it arrive on live cameras — free, no signup.
The first snow of the 2026–27 season is falling today, Monday, October 26 — across the Dakotas and the Black Hills, in a major early storm in Alaska, and under winter weather advisories in Colorado's ski country. This page gathers the live public cameras from the places getting it first: 470 around Denver and the I-70 mountain corridor, 74 around Anchorage and Southcentral Alaska, and 12 around Rapid City and the Black Hills — every one free to watch, no signup, updating around the clock as the snow arrives.
As reported nationally on October 26, the Plains system is spreading the season's first snowfall across the Dakotas, eastern Wyoming and western Nebraska, with several inches possible in the Black Hills and a slushy accumulation in Rapid City. Snow is also falling in the Cascades and the northern Rockies. In Alaska, a separate storm threatens up to 16 inches with gusts to 55 mph. And in Colorado, ski country sits under a winter weather advisory with 4–12 inches expected this week — the storm that decides whether the first resorts really open on Friday.
First snow is a threshold event, and cameras are the honest way to watch it. A forecast can promise six inches; the camera on Loveland Pass, the snow stake at a resort base, or the I-90 feed outside Rapid City shows the flakes accumulating — or not — in real time. Road crews, ski patrols and anyone planning a mountain drive this week are all reading the same frames.
This page stays up as the season's front door: the winter-storm entry point for the months ahead, pointing on to the ski opening week hub and the resort pages where the snow is about to be skied.
Colorado high country & the I-70 corridor
470 cameras within 40 km of Denver, nearest first — the metro, the foothills and the I-70 mountain corridor toward the ski resorts. Colorado ski country is under a winter weather advisory this week, with 4–12 inches expected in the high country: this is the wall that shows the passes whitening and the storm total building before opening day.
Loading live cameras…Fetching the live index for Denver & the I-70 corridor.
Every card is the camera's real live feed: snapshot cards refresh about every 15 seconds, stream cards play live in the grid (a few at a time, the same budget the map tiles use) and in full when you open a camera. Feeds are provided by their operators and public sources; a camera whose stream has gone off air shows as unavailable rather than playing a recording.
Anchorage & Southcentral Alaska
74 cameras within 50 km of Anchorage, nearest first. Alaska's storm is the biggest of this first-snow round — forecasters warn of up to 16 inches with 55 mph gusts — and Anchorage's road and city cameras show it arriving off the inlet.
Loading live cameras…Fetching the live index for Anchorage & Southcentral Alaska.
Every card is the camera's real live feed: snapshot cards refresh about every 15 seconds, stream cards play live in the grid (a few at a time, the same budget the map tiles use) and in full when you open a camera. Feeds are provided by their operators and public sources; a camera whose stream has gone off air shows as unavailable rather than playing a recording.
Rapid City & the Black Hills
12 cameras within 40 km of Rapid City — every one the catalogue holds for the area, because the rural Plains are DOT-sparse next to Colorado's corridor. The Black Hills are in line for the deepest snow of the Plains system, with a slushy first accumulation in Rapid City itself.
Loading live cameras…Fetching the live index for Rapid City & the Black Hills.
Every card is the camera's real live feed: snapshot cards refresh about every 15 seconds, stream cards play live in the grid (a few at a time, the same budget the map tiles use) and in full when you open a camera. Feeds are provided by their operators and public sources; a camera whose stream has gone off air shows as unavailable rather than playing a recording.
Why first snow gets its own page
It decides opening week
Colorado's first resorts are projected to open October 30–31, and the difference between a ribbon of snowmaking and a real opening is a week like this one. The corridor cameras show the natural snow the schedules are counting on.
It is the roads' first test
The season's first snow catches more drivers unprepared than any January blizzard. Pass and interstate cameras show the moment wet pavement turns to ice and slush — check them before a mountain drive, not during it.
It is a national ritual
Every October, the first flakes in the high country make national news — the official start of the winter story. Mountain towns plan around it; skiers start counting days. The cameras turn the ritual into a live view instead of a headline.
Forecast vs frame
Expected totals are forecasters' best work, and the National Weather Service remains the authority for warnings. But for the question everyone actually asks — is it snowing there yet? — a live camera is the answer.
How to watch the first snow live
- 1Start with the Colorado wall if you care about ski country, or your region's wall if the storm is headed your way.
- 2Look for the pass and summit cameras first — snow shows there hours before it sticks in town.
- 3Check the road cameras before any mountain drive: first snow is the season's most underestimated road hazard.
- 4Follow the snow on to the ski opening week page, where the same storm becomes opening day.
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