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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
Taos Ski Valley publishes three levels, so its top share counts advanced and expert terrain together. · · .
Snow and weather
The National Weather Service forecast for the summit and the base, and the snowpack measured nearby. Live: each figure gives its source and time.
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Webcams
Taos Ski Valley shows its webcams on its own site
Its cameras play only on its own page.
Trail map
2024–25 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 Taos Ski Valley lists, on its trail map and in a list side by side, to tick off as you ski them.
- Skied it: Regular
- Foil: at 61 runs
- Holo: at 122 runs
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Getting there
Taos Regional (TSM) 51 min · Santa Fe Regional (SAF) 2 h · Albuquerque International (ABQ) 3 h 4 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 Taos Ski Valley is on, and what each gives here.
Ikon Pass
7 daysIkon Pass: up to 7 days at Taos with no blackout dates (Winter 25/26).
Mountain Collective
2 days2 days at Taos plus 50% off additional days, no blackout dates (2026-27).
Rankings
Where Taos Ski Valley stands among the U.S. resorts with each figure, and within New Mexico.
- Summit elevation#7 U.S., top 10of 342#1 of 9 in New Mexico
- Highest lift-served elevation#5 U.S., top 10of 471#1 of 9 in New Mexico
- Base elevation#14 U.S., top 50of 317#3 of 9 in New Mexico
- Advertised vertical drop#18 U.S., top 50of 390#1 of 9 in New Mexico
- Lift-served vertical#18 U.S., top 50of 305#1 of 9 in New Mexico
- Skiable acres#58 U.S., top 100of 319#1 of 9 in New Mexico
- Named trails#34 U.S., top 50of 352#1 of 9 in New Mexico
- Longest run#4 U.S., top 10of 181#1 of 2 in New Mexico
- Advanced + expert terrain#20 U.S., top 50of 209#1 of 9 in New Mexico
- Beginner runs#17 U.S., top 50of 209#1 of 9 in New Mexico
- Total lifts#37 U.S., top 50of 480#1 of 9 in New Mexico
- Uphill capacity#33 U.S., top 50of 81#1 of 2 in New Mexico
- Average annual snowfall#60 U.S., top 100of 253#1 of 9 in New Mexico
- Airport drive#417 U.S., outside the top 100of 506#7 of 9 in New Mexico
- Big airport drive#390 U.S., outside the top 100of 505#7 of 9 in New Mexico
- Closest airport drive#475 U.S., outside the top 100of 507#7 of 9 in New Mexico
Sources
Every figure on this page in one list, and the pages behind each.
