Snow Creek (ski resort)  Snow Creek is a ski resort on the bluffs above the Missouri River in Marshall Township, Platte County, northwest of Kansas City, Missouri, near the village of Iatan. Opening in 1986 it was the second resort to be developed in the Peak Resorts chain. Overlooking Kansas across the river, the resort plays on its Midwest heritage including a tornado alley tubing trail. A tornado touched ground at the resort at 7:30 p.m. on April 30, 2003 in part of the May 2003 tornado outbreak sequence. The tornado did minimal damage and nobody was injured. The lift elevation is and the vertical drop is . It has 3 chair lifts and 3 surface lifts, 11 trails including 1 advanced and 2 easy. It comprises and its mailing address is Weston, Missouri.