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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
· ·
- 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.
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
Sign in to tick runs off here and in the list; the ones you’ve skied turn pink, with a check.
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 under Runs); bowls and glades mapped as areas are a faint fill in their difficulty's colour. 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.
64 runs on the resort’s list aren’t drawn here yet
On the resort’s list, with no line in OpenStreetMap yet: mapping them there draws them here.
Runs
Every run Taos Ski Valley lists, to tick off as you ski them; the trail map above, drawn from OpenStreetMap, names them and turns the ones you've skied pink.
122 runs · 12 glades · 1 park
The resort’s own list, its trail map leading: every section it lists counts, traverses and roads too; carpets, learning areas, race courses and nordic tracks are left out, and parks are a list of their own.
Sign in to tick off the runs you’ve skied, here and on the trail map.
- Black0.6 mi · 1,630 ft drop
- Black380 ft · 200 ft drop
- Blue1,260 ft · 400 ft drop
- Blue2,390 ft · 510 ft drop
- Greennot drawn yet
- GladeNot on the trail mapGreen690 ft · 170 ft drop
- Hike-toDouble blacknot drawn yet
- Black1,140 ft · 560 ft drop
Terrain parks
1 · a list of their own, outside the run count
Names and difficulty: Taos Ski Valley — Weather & Webcams, What's Open (skitaos.com, read Sep 29, 2026); Taos Ski Valley — Winter trail map (Winter24) (skitaos.com, 2024-25 map, the newest the resort posts, read Sep 29, 2026). A run only the status list names, not the trail map, says so.
Lines, lengths and verticals where a run is drawn: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, via OpenSkiMap (Sep 28, 2026); measured by Aurora from the mapped line, not the resort’s figures. On the map, glades and bowls are areas: OpenStreetMap’s own where it maps one, else drawn by Aurora around its line, edges approximate.
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, 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: up to 7 days at Taos with no blackout dates (Winter 25/26).source
- Mountain Collective2 days2 days at Taos plus 50% off additional days, no blackout dates (2026-27).source
Rankings
16 — #3 longest run16 — #3 longest run, #5 top lift, #7 summit in the U.S.
Position among the resorts with a figure; national rank first, state rank second.
- Summit elevation#7 of 341 U.S. · #1 in New Mexico
- Highest lift-served elevation#5 of 471 U.S. · #1 in New Mexico
- Base elevation#15 of 316 U.S. · #3 in New Mexico
- Advertised vertical drop#18 of 388 U.S. · #1 in New Mexico
- Lift-served vertical#18 of 304 U.S. · #1 in New Mexico
- Skiable acres#58 of 316 U.S. · #1 in New Mexico
- Named trails#33 of 347 U.S. · #1 in New Mexico
- Longest run#3 of 177 U.S. · #1 in New Mexico
- Advanced + expert terrain#19 of 202 U.S. · #1 in New Mexico
- Beginner runs#16 of 202 U.S. · #1 in New Mexico
- Total lifts#38 of 479 U.S. · #1 in New Mexico
- Uphill capacity#32 of 72 U.S. · #1 in New Mexico
- Average annual snowfall#61 of 252 U.S. · #1 in New Mexico
- Drive from the fly-in airport#306 of 504 U.S. · #4 in New Mexico
- Drive from nearest major airport#389 of 504 U.S. · #7 in New Mexico
- Drive from closest airline airport#474 of 506 U.S. · #7 in New Mexico
