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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

Sugar Bowl publishes three levels, so its top share counts advanced and expert terrain together. .

Snow and weather

The National Weather Service forecast for the mountain, and the snowpack measured nearby. Live: each figure gives its source and time.

Webcams

Sugar Bowl shows its webcams on its own site

Its cameras play only on its own page.

Trail map

Drawn from OpenStreetMap

112 runs · 12 lifts, as mapped in OpenStreetMap

Map key
Your runs

Pink is a run you’ve skied. Every run is named and ticked on the run map.

Open the run map

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 500 ft. The key counts the lines OpenStreetMap draws, not the resort's runs (its own list is on the run map); bowls and glades mapped as areas are a faint fill in their difficulty's color. The resort's glades and bowls are drawn as areas: OpenStreetMap's own where it maps one, otherwise drawn by Aurora around OpenStreetMap's line, up to 60 m each side and halfway to the next run or lift, so their edges are approximate.

The resort’s published trail map is not yet collected.

Runs

Every run Sugar Bowl lists, on its trail map and in a list side by side, to tick off as you ski them.

The Sugar Bowl sticker
  1. Skied it
    Regular
  2. Foil
    51 runs
  3. Holo
    102 runs

Getting there

Reno–Tahoe International (RNO) 58 min

Photos

Photographs of the ski area we may republish, each credited to its photographer. Open one to see it whole.

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Passes

The multi-resort passes Sugar Bowl is on, and what each gives here.

Rankings

Where Sugar Bowl stands among the U.S. resorts with each figure, and within California.

Sources

Every figure on this page in one list, and the pages behind each.

All numbers

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26 observations from 4 publishers