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
Ski Big Bear 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. Live: each figure gives its source and time.
Webcams
Live from Ski Big Bear’s own cameras, each in the player the resort’s page uses. Press play to watch; one plays at a time.
2 cameraschecked Oct 3
Snowbird Beginner Trail
Nothing loads from Wetmet until you press play.
Camera: Ski Big Bear · Wetmet player
Trail map
31 runs · 6 lifts, as mapped in OpenStreetMap
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 200 ft. The key counts the lines OpenStreetMap draws, not the resort's runs; bowls and glades mapped as areas are a faint fill in their difficulty's color.
The resort’s published trail map is not yet collected.
Getting there
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International (AVP) 1 h 21 min · Lehigh Valley International (ABE) 2 h 9 min
Photos
No photographs of Ski Big Bear that we may republish yet
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Passes
The multi-resort passes Ski Big Bear is on, and what each gives here.
Indy Pass
2 daysIndy Pass: two all-day or night lift tickets at each partner resort (Indy Base has blackout dates; Indy+ has none).
Rankings
Where Ski Big Bear stands among the U.S. resorts with each figure, and within Pennsylvania.
- Summit elevation#291 U.S., outside the top 100of 342#18 of 20 in Pennsylvania
- Highest lift-served elevation#334 U.S., outside the top 100of 471#20 of 28 in Pennsylvania
- Base elevation#298 U.S., outside the top 100of 317#15 of 16 in Pennsylvania
- Advertised vertical drop#225 U.S., outside the top 100of 390#10 of 21 in Pennsylvania
- Lift-served vertical#185 U.S., outside the top 100of 305#8 of 16 in Pennsylvania
- Skiable acres#304 U.S., outside the top 100of 319#16 of 16 in Pennsylvania
- Named trails#257 U.S., outside the top 100of 352#15 of 19 in Pennsylvania
- Advanced + expert terrain#96 U.S., top 100of 209#7 of 14 in Pennsylvania
- Beginner runs#150 U.S., outside the top 100of 209#7 of 13 in Pennsylvania
- Total lifts#152 U.S., outside the top 100of 480#10 of 28 in Pennsylvania
- Average annual snowfall#231 U.S., outside the top 100of 253#6 of 8 in Pennsylvania
- Airport drive#325 U.S., outside the top 100of 506#26 of 28 in Pennsylvania
- Big airport drive#298 U.S., outside the top 100of 505#22 of 28 in Pennsylvania
- Closest airport drive#385 U.S., outside the top 100of 507#27 of 28 in Pennsylvania
Sources
Every figure on this page in one list, and the pages behind each.