Tires MICHELIN or Falken

We have them on our crossover and they're excellent all year in Anchorage weather. Many of the responses comparing them to all season tires are misguided. The "all weather" tire is a different type of tire from an "all season" and they perform relativley close to many dedicated snow tires. They are a true year round tire for Anchorage weather. Never had an issue going anywhere around the state in winter including up to the ski hills in all conditions, running up to Fairbanks, or down to the Kenai.

It does depend on what and how you drive as well if you have an awd vehicle and a reasonably decent driver you should be good to go? If it's only 2wd I might lean toward separate snow tires, but they're probably fine for a front wheel drive car as well. For awd - I'd go for the crossclimates. I'd buy again if I were buying for our CUV today. I might even put them on my truck if they were available in truck sizes. Unfortunately the truck size crossclimate only shares the name, but not much else.

Just for a comparison from actual testing data I found that was done on the same car, same day, same track for snow braking distance from 20mph to 5mph:

Summer tire 120.9 feet

All Season tire 44.8 feet

CrossClimate2 36.8 feet

Winter Tire 34.7 feet.

The Crossclimate is about 5% different from the winter tire like the Blizzak, 30% better than the all season, and about 3.5 times shorter braking distance than the summer tires. Acceleration tests were similar on snow.

My personal experience is similar that I'd guess they're about 90% of the way to a winter tire vs a summer tire. And you don't have to swap them twice a year.

Falken Rubitrek A/T. They are a little less aggressive then the Wildpeaks, and perform better on the highway. I do a lot of highways miles and occasionally drive on some rough trails, these have been amazing.

Michelin x-ice are pretty nice. Used my last set for 5 or 6 seasons. Had been so long since i bought them. They did a little RND

I have had no issues off road with the Wild Peaks.

The Falken Wildpeak ATs I had on my Gladiator were great. They spent about 90% of their life on road. They were quiet and I had minimal MPG loss. I got close to the 55k mile mark before I needed to replace them. They were great in snow and rain, never had a sliding issue.

Just got mine a few weeks ago! 265/70R17, much quieter and so much better in rain than my KO2s were even when they were brand new. I got SL, went back and forth between SL and E. I really wanted them to have a C-class LT tire but not available in this size

I had them years ago on a plow truck and holy crap were they good in the snow.

On our second set with the Honda Pilot. Best tires ive ever owned. We live on the side of the mountain in Chugiak and drive the icy highway all the time. Deep snow, glare ice, no problem.

Not having to do seasonal tire changeover ever again is so nice

I bought these for my Lexus replacing latitudes, went to Lexus got an alignment, put it on the road to Tennessee probably 4-500 ish miles one way. They were pretty grippy on the back roads, but highway driving was just to loud for me. So I took them back within the 1000 mile guarantee, when I got back from Tennessee and got a new set of latitudes. They are good tires for sure but they are also directional tires so that's where you get the bit of road noise. But they do have hella grip.

Michelin is the only brand that comes close and I've calculated they're roughly 30% more expensive and last me about 80% as long. I was a big Michelin fanboy and loyal to a fault.