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
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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
2026–27 season · artist not stated
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 250 ft. The key counts the lines OpenStreetMap draws, not the resort's runs.
Getting there
Reno–Tahoe International (RNO) 1 h 8 min
Photos
No photographs of Homewood Mountain that we may republish yet.More photos· Google Images
Passes, rankings and every number
Each row says what it holds; open one for the figures and their sources.
Passes
IndependentIndependent — not on Epic, Ikon, Indy, Mountain Collective or Power
On no multi-resort pass: not on Epic Pass, Ikon Pass, Indy Pass, Mountain Collective or Power Pass.
Rankings
15 — #41 adv+exp15 — #41 adv+exp, #99 top lift in the U.S.
Position among the resorts with a figure; national rank first, state rank second.
- Summit elevation#92 of 341 U.S. · #16 in California
- Highest lift-served elevation#99 of 471 U.S. · #15 in California
- Base elevation#94 of 316 U.S. · #20 in California
- Advertised vertical drop#89 of 388 U.S. · #11 in California
- Lift-served vertical#88 of 304 U.S. · #10 in California
- Skiable acres#59 of 316 U.S. · #10 in California
- Named trails#88 of 347 U.S. · #9 in California
- Longest run#61 of 177 U.S. · #8 in California
- Advanced + expert terrain#41 of 202 U.S. · #4 in California
- Beginner runs#104 of 202 U.S. · #12 in California
- Total lifts#151 of 479 U.S. · #17 in California
- Average annual snowfall#20 of 252 U.S. · #4 in California
- Drive from the fly-in airport#173 of 504 U.S. · #16 in California
- Drive from nearest major airport#138 of 504 U.S. · #14 in California
- Drive from closest airline airport#322 of 506 U.S. · #18 in California