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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.
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, rankings and every number
Each row says what it holds; open one for the figures and their sources.
Passes
Ikon (7 days), Mountain Collective (2 days)Ikon (7 days), Mountain Collective (2 days)
- Ikon Pass7 daysIkon Pass: 7 days, no blackouts. Ikon Base Pass: no access to Sun Valley.source
- Mountain Collective2 daysMountain Collective: 2 days, no blackout dates, half off additional days.source
Rankings
16 — #10 lift vert.16 — #10 lift vert., #11 fly-in drive, #12 beginner runs in the U.S.
Position among the resorts with a figure; national rank first, state rank second.
- Summit elevation#64 of 341 U.S. · #2 in Idaho
- Highest lift-served elevation#63 of 471 U.S. · #1 in Idaho
- Base elevation#105 of 316 U.S. · #7 in Idaho
- Advertised vertical drop#11 of 388 U.S. · #1 in Idaho
- Lift-served vertical#10 of 304 U.S. · #1 in Idaho
- Skiable acres#24 of 316 U.S. · #3 in Idaho
- Named trails#26 of 347 U.S. · #1 in Idaho
- Longest run#78 of 177 U.S. · #5 in Idaho
- Advanced + expert terrain#73 of 202 U.S. · #7 in Idaho
- Beginner runs#12 of 202 U.S. · #1 in Idaho
- Total lifts#47 of 479 U.S. · #1 in Idaho
- Uphill capacity#14 of 72 U.S. · #1 in Idaho
- Average annual snowfall#119 of 252 U.S. · #10 in Idaho
- Drive from the fly-in airport#11 of 504 U.S. · #2 in Idaho
- Drive from nearest major airport#367 of 504 U.S. · #14 in Idaho
- Drive from closest airline airport#32 of 506 U.S. · #3 in Idaho
