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Northern California Ski Area
Home to the largest concentration of ski resorts in North America, Lake Tahoe in Northern California delivers a unique ski world every day. Each mountain resort offers skiers and boarders diverse terrain, from mellow bowls to heart-pounding steeps, from gentle cruisers to expressways, from powder fields to superpipes. In addition to primo skiing, you'll enjoy primo lodging at a nearby Northern California Days Inn.
Alpine Meadows
Recognized for its widely diverse terrain and deep snowfall, Alpine Meadows offers 2,400 acres with six wide-open powderbowls, steep chutes, gentle glades and endless cruisers that make Alpine Meadows the locals' favorite. This family area offers all-inclusive ski and snowboard packages and affordable ski school programs.
[ Back to Top ]Heavenly Ski Resort
Overlooking the south shore of Lake Tahoe, Heavenly Ski Resort is one of North America's largest ski areas. Heavenly features 4,800 acres of ski and snowboard terrain, an expansive network of trails and lifts, 360 inches of snow and breathtaking views of the towering peaks of the Sierra. Heavenly has the longest vertical drop in the Tahoe Basin with a mountain descent five miles long. From long intermediate cruisers to the Mott Canyon chutes, Heavenly offers magnificent terrain, Nordic skiing, high-altitude snow tubing and
snowshoeing.
[ Back to Top ]Homewood Resort
Homewood resort appears unassuming at the base lodge but secrets lie beyond. With more than 1,260 acres of terrain, Homewood offers the perfect union of unparalleled Lake Tahoe views and varied ski terrain, with open groomed boulevards, gladed runs, pristine powder and steep chutes.
[ Back to Top ]Kirkwood
Combine 2,300 acres of outstanding ski terrain and some of the nation's deepest snow and you‘ll understand Kirkwood. The ski resort boasts Tahoe's top cross country skiing, snowshoeing, tubing and ice skating.
[ Back to Top ]Mt. Rose
Mt. Rose offers Lake Tahoe's closest skiing to Reno/Tahoe International Airport. Tahoe's highest base, Mt. Rose ensures excellent snow conditions. Hit the "Chutes" between the east and west bowls.
[ Back to Top ]Northstar at Tahoe Northstar at Tahoe
Northstar boasts 2,400 skiable acres and a variety of restaurants and activities. Offering particular appeal to families, the ski resort features award-winning children programs, a super pipe, snowshoeing and excellent cross country skiing.
[ Back to Top ]Royal Gorge
Located on the Donner Summit, Royal Gorge Cross Country Ski Resort - ranked "Number One" by Snow Country Magazine - is the largest cross country ski resort in North America and has the nation's largest single trail system. With 90 awesome trails and 330 km of tracks, Royal Gorge offers an extensive network over thousands of acres of snow-clad wilderness in the Sierra Nevada.
[ Back to Top ]Squaw Valley Lodge Snowmobiling Tours
Experience the rush of crisp winter air on your face as you zoom over freshly groomed trails on your snowmobile. Enjoy scenic tours on groomed and untracked powder that winds you through Cold stream Canyon where you can take in views of Donner Peak and Tinker's Knob.
[ Back to Top ]Squaw Valley Nordic Center
Squaw Valley Nordic Center is located at the trailhead of the cross country ski and snowshoe trails at the Resort at Squaw Creek. The Nordic Center offers 400 acres of meticulously groomed trails that wind through the stunning Squaw Valley meadow and hillside.
[ Back to Top ]Squaw Valley USA
Host of the 1960 Winter Olympics, Squaw Valley is a world-class ski destination nestled among six high Sierra peaks - Snow King, KT-22, Squaw Peak, Emigrant, Granite Chief, and Broken Arrow - overlooking Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada. Squaw Valley lures you to 4,000 skiable acres, open-bowl ski terrain, pristine trails, an annual snowpack of 450 inches and California sunshine 300 days a year. With incredible mountain slopes, two half pipes, three terrain parks, inspiring scenery and ski events galore, Squaw is a vacation paradise. Squaw Valley offers exciting night terrain on the 3.2 mile Mountain Run and Riviera Halfpipe.
[ Back to Top ]Tahoe Cross Country Ski Area
Located in the Highlands on the Lake Tahoe's North Shore, Tahoe Cross Country offers 65 kilometers of groomed trail and spectacular lake views for the finest cross-country skiing in California. Snowshoeing is also popular on the 3.5 km snowshoe trail.
[ Back to Top ]Tahoe Donner Cross Country
Tahoe Donner boasts one of the nation's premiers cross country centers. With a variety of terrain, Tahoe Donner Cross Country Center is "the" place for XC adventurers. Ski 46 scenic trails of beginner, intermediate and advanced terrain. The one-way trail system is carefully marked and groomed with two sets of side-by-side ski trails.
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