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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
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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 Valley shows its webcams on its own site.
Its cameras play only on its own page.
Trail map
41 runs · 13 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 250 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
Ontario International (ONT) 1 h 1 min
Photos
No photographs of Snow Valley 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
Ikon (unlimited)Ikon (unlimited)
Rankings
14 — #47 lifts14 — #47 lifts, #100 top lift, #110 major airport drive in the U.S.
Position among the resorts with a figure; national rank first, state rank second.
- Summit elevation#93 of 341 U.S. · #17 in California
- Highest lift-served elevation#100 of 471 U.S. · #16 in California
- Base elevation#71 of 316 U.S. · #11 in California
- Advertised vertical drop#163 of 388 U.S. · #18 in California
- Lift-served vertical#142 of 304 U.S. · #16 in California
- Skiable acres#160 of 316 U.S. · #18 in California
- Named trails#185 of 347 U.S. · #18 in California
- Advanced + expert terrain#59 of 202 U.S. · #7 in California
- Beginner runs#162 of 202 U.S. · #15 in California
- Total lifts#47 of 479 U.S. · #8 in California
- Average annual snowfall#148 of 252 U.S. · #18 in California
- Drive from the fly-in airport#142 of 504 U.S. · #11 in California
- Drive from nearest major airport#110 of 504 U.S. · #10 in California
- Drive from closest airline airport#123 of 506 U.S. · #1 in California