Snow Summit
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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
The difficulty mix is not yet collected.
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Snow and weather
The National Weather Service forecast for the summit and the base. Live: each figure gives its source and time.
Webcams
Snow Summit shows its webcams on its own site.
Its cameras play only on its own page.
Trail map
Season not stated · 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 200 ft. The key counts the lines OpenStreetMap draws, not the resort's runs.
Getting there
Ontario International (ONT) 1 h 20 min
Photos
Photographs of the ski area we may republish, each credited to its photographer. Open one to see it whole.
Passes, rankings and every number
Each row says what it holds; open one for the figures and their sources.
Passes
Ikon (unlimited)Ikon (unlimited)
Rankings
14 — #30 lifts14 — #30 lifts, #67 base, #89 top lift in the U.S.
Position among the resorts with a figure; national rank first, state rank second.
- Summit elevation#87 of 341 U.S. · #14 in California
- Highest lift-served elevation#89 of 471 U.S. · #12 in California
- Base elevation#67 of 316 U.S. · #9 in California
- Advertised vertical drop#145 of 388 U.S. · #17 in California
- Lift-served vertical#126 of 304 U.S. · #15 in California
- Skiable acres#160 of 316 U.S. · #18 in California
- Named trails#174 of 347 U.S. · #17 in California
- Longest run#106 of 177 U.S. · #14 in California
- Total lifts#30 of 479 U.S. · #7 in California
- Uphill capacity#21 of 72 U.S. · #5 in California
- Average annual snowfall#191 of 252 U.S. · #19 in California
- Drive from the fly-in airport#216 of 504 U.S. · #17 in California
- Drive from nearest major airport#174 of 504 U.S. · #15 in California
- Drive from closest airline airport#251 of 506 U.S. · #9 in California