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
112 runs · 12 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 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.
- Skied itRegular
- Foil51 runs
- Holo102 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.
Passes
The multi-resort passes Sugar Bowl is on, and what each gives here.
Mountain Collective
2 daysMountain Collective: 2 days, no blackout dates, half off additional days.
Rankings
Where Sugar Bowl stands among the U.S. resorts with each figure, and within California.
- Summit elevation#79 U.S., top 100of 342#12 of 23 in California
- Highest lift-served elevation#83 U.S., top 100of 471#11 of 25 in California
- Base elevation#70 U.S., top 100of 317#10 of 23 in California
- Advertised vertical drop#128 U.S., outside the top 100of 390#16 of 24 in California
- Lift-served vertical#105 U.S., outside the top 100of 305#14 of 21 in California
- Skiable acres#43 U.S., top 50of 319#8 of 23 in California
- Named trails#38 U.S., top 50of 352#4 of 24 in California
- Longest run#23 U.S., top 50of 181#3 of 18 in California
- Advanced + expert terrain#50 U.S., top 50of 209#6 of 21 in California
- Beginner runs#60 U.S., top 100of 209#5 of 21 in California
- Total lifts#46 U.S., top 50of 480#8 of 27 in California
- Uphill capacity#18 U.S., top 50of 81#4 of 8 in California
- Average annual snowfall#4 U.S., top 10of 253#1 of 20 in California
- Airport drive#119 U.S., outside the top 100of 506#8 of 29 in California
- Big airport drive#98 U.S., top 100of 505#8 of 29 in California
- Closest airport drive#259 U.S., outside the top 100of 507#10 of 29 in California
Sources
Every figure on this page in one list, and the pages behind each.
