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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
Sun Valley shows its webcams on its own site
Its cameras play only on its own page.
Trail map
2025–26 season · 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 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.
Runs
Every run Sun Valley lists, on its trail map and in a list side by side, to tick off as you ski them.
- Skied itRegular
- Foil65 runs
- Holo129 runs
Getting there
Friedman Memorial (SUN) 21 min · Boise (BOI) 2 h 48 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 Sun Valley is on, and what each gives here.
Ikon Pass
7 daysIkon Pass: 7 days, no blackouts. Ikon Base Pass: no access to Sun Valley.
Mountain Collective
2 daysMountain Collective: 2 days, no blackout dates, half off additional days.
Rankings
Where Sun Valley stands among the U.S. resorts with each figure, and within Idaho.
- Summit elevation#64 U.S., top 100of 342#2 of 17 in Idaho
- Highest lift-served elevation#63 U.S., top 100of 471#1 of 20 in Idaho
- Base elevation#105 U.S., outside the top 100of 317#7 of 14 in Idaho
- Advertised vertical drop#11 U.S., top 50of 390#1 of 18 in Idaho
- Lift-served vertical#10 U.S., top 10of 305#1 of 14 in Idaho
- Skiable acres#24 U.S., top 50of 319#3 of 17 in Idaho
- Named trails#27 U.S., top 50of 352#1 of 16 in Idaho
- Longest run#79 U.S., top 100of 181#5 of 12 in Idaho
- Advanced + expert terrain#74 U.S., top 100of 209#7 of 12 in Idaho
- Beginner runs#13 U.S., top 50of 209#1 of 12 in Idaho
- Total lifts#46 U.S., top 50of 480#1 of 20 in Idaho
- Uphill capacity#15 U.S., top 50of 81#1 of 3 in Idaho
- Average annual snowfall#118 U.S., outside the top 100of 253#10 of 14 in Idaho
- Airport drive#395 U.S., outside the top 100of 506#15 of 21 in Idaho
- Big airport drive#368 U.S., outside the top 100of 505#14 of 21 in Idaho
- Closest airport drive#32 U.S., top 50of 507#3 of 21 in Idaho
Sources
Every figure on this page in one list, and the pages behind each.
