Sugar Bowl
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
89 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; 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
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, rankings and every number
Each row says what it holds; open one for the figures and their sources.
Passes
Mountain Collective (2 days)Mountain Collective (2 days)
- Mountain Collective2 daysMountain Collective: 2 days, no blackout dates, half off additional days.source
Rankings
16 — #21 longest run16 — #21 longest run, #37 trails, #47 lifts in the U.S.
Position among the resorts with a figure; national rank first, state rank second.
- Summit elevation#79 of 341 U.S. · #12 in California
- Highest lift-served elevation#83 of 471 U.S. · #11 in California
- Base elevation#70 of 316 U.S. · #10 in California
- Advertised vertical drop#128 of 388 U.S. · #16 in California
- Lift-served vertical#105 of 304 U.S. · #14 in California
- Skiable acres#43 of 316 U.S. · #8 in California
- Named trails#37 of 347 U.S. · #4 in California
- Longest run#21 of 177 U.S. · #3 in California
- Advanced + expert terrain#50 of 202 U.S. · #6 in California
- Beginner runs#58 of 202 U.S. · #5 in California
- Total lifts#47 of 479 U.S. · #8 in California
- Uphill capacity#17 of 72 U.S. · #4 in California
- Average annual snowfall#4 of 252 U.S. · #1 in California
- Drive from the fly-in airport#128 of 504 U.S. · #8 in California
- Drive from nearest major airport#98 of 504 U.S. · #8 in California
- Drive from closest airline airport#259 of 506 U.S. · #10 in California