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A skier in red descends a groomed snow run high above Lake Tahoe under a clear blue sky at Heavenly.
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Heavenly

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Mountain

How big it is and what the skiing is like, each figure with its U.S. rank.

Lifts: the count the resort advertises; resorts differ on whether surface lifts and carpets are in it.

Terrain · the resort’s own difficulty mix

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Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced + expert

Heavenly publishes three levels, so its top share counts advanced and expert terrain together. · · .

Snow and weather

The National Weather Service forecast for the summit and the base, and the snowpack measured nearby. Live: each figure gives its source and time.

Trail map

Drawn from OpenStreetMap

139 runs · 26 lifts, as mapped in OpenStreetMap

Map key

Seen as a trail map shows a mountain: from the base looking uphill, the ground tilted up (heights ×1.5); the arrow points north and the scale holds across the page. Runs and lifts as OpenStreetMap's contributors have mapped them, on the ground from USGS elevation data, with a stronger contour every 1,000 ft. The key counts the lines OpenStreetMap draws, not the resort's runs.

The resort’s published trail map is not yet collected.

Getting there

Reno–Tahoe International (RNO) 1 h 2 min

Photos

Photographs of the ski area we may republish, each credited to its photographer. Open one to see it whole.

More photos· Google Images
  • Region 5 Photography · Public domain
  • Jonathan Cook-Fisher · CC BY 2.0
  • FASTILY · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • The original uploader was ChrisRuvolo at English Wikipedia. · CC BY 2.0
  • Constantine Kulikovsky · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • harley photo · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • FASTILY · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Region 5 Photography · Public domain
  • FASTILY · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Region 5 Photography · Public domain
  • More photoson Google Images
More photos· Google Images

Passes, rankings and every number

Each row says what it holds; open one for the figures and their sources.

Passes

Epic (unlimited)Epic (unlimited)
  • Epic PassUnlimited
    Epic Pass: unlimited, unrestricted access at Heavenly. Epic Local Pass: excluded on restricted peak dates at Heavenly, with half-price pass-holder tickets on those dates. Tahoe Local Pass: restricted dates 11/27–28/26, 12/26–31/26, 1/16/27, 2/13–14/27.source

Rankings

16 — #1 longest run16 — #1 longest run, #7 lifts, #9 lift vert. in the U.S.

Position among the resorts with a figure; national rank first, state rank second.

All numbers

all 24all 24, in one list

Sources

68 observations from 6 publishers