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
· ·
- 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 Sep 30
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 colour.
The resort’s published trail map is not yet collected.
Getting there
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International (AVP) 1 h 21 min · Newark Liberty International (EWR) 2 h 9 min
Photos
No photographs of Ski Big Bear 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
Indy (2 days)Indy (2 days)
Rankings
14 national rankings14 national rankings
Position among the resorts with a figure; national rank first, state rank second.
- Summit elevation#290 of 341 U.S. · #18 in Pennsylvania
- Highest lift-served elevation#334 of 471 U.S. · #20 in Pennsylvania
- Base elevation#298 of 316 U.S. · #15 in Pennsylvania
- Advertised vertical drop#225 of 388 U.S. · #10 in Pennsylvania
- Lift-served vertical#185 of 304 U.S. · #8 in Pennsylvania
- Skiable acres#301 of 316 U.S. · #16 in Pennsylvania
- Named trails#255 of 347 U.S. · #15 in Pennsylvania
- Advanced + expert terrain#95 of 202 U.S. · #7 in Pennsylvania
- Beginner runs#144 of 202 U.S. · #7 in Pennsylvania
- Total lifts#151 of 479 U.S. · #10 in Pennsylvania
- Average annual snowfall#230 of 252 U.S. · #6 in Pennsylvania
- Drive from the fly-in airport#333 of 504 U.S. · #22 in Pennsylvania
- Drive from nearest major airport#297 of 504 U.S. · #22 in Pennsylvania
- Drive from closest airline airport#385 of 506 U.S. · #27 in Pennsylvania