Lake Tahoe

A Comprehensive Tour of the Mount Rose Chutes

A comprehensive video tour of the Chutes at Mount Rose, including Cutthroat, Hornet's Nest, El Cap, and Yellow Jacket. These runs range from advanced to expert, and the toughest pitches are riddled with steep fall lines, natural obstacles, and high-consequence drops.

A Tour of the Palisades at Palisades Tahoe

A comprehensive tour of the iconic Palisades zone at Palisades Tahoe (formerly Squaw Valley). These lines range from expert to truly extreme, and the toughest pitches are among the most dangerous in all of North America.

A Journey Up Big Sky’s Newly-Upgraded Lewis and Clark Bubble Lift

Big Sky’s Lewis and Clark lift quietly received bubbles on 100% of its chairs for the 2021-22 season. Our rankers Sam and George take a ride up and discuss the implications.

Tahoe Ski Resorts Ranked: 2022-23

We rank the Lake Tahoe ski areas in order of overall mountain experience, and we highlight the strengths and weaknesses of each one.

We’ve Adjusted Our Resiliency Category to Better Reflect Terrain Openings.

Four ski areas, mostly in Tahoe, see score changes as a result.

Terrain Diversity and Challenge Score Adjustments: Accounting for Fundamentals

We’ve made tweaks to our Terrain Diversity and Challenge categories to better reflect the way typical visitors spend time on the mountain. Seven resorts see score changes as a result.

Homewood

While this Tahoe hill can’t hold its own overall against the destination resorts, it boasts an astonishing, one-of-a-kind mountain aesthetic.

Diamond Peak

This Tahoe mountain will impress many visitors with breathtaking lake views, but its terrain and amenities are no match for the area’s better-known destination resorts.

Mount Rose

Despite its high elevation, a number of shortcomings detract from this Nevada mountain’s appeal as a destination resort.

Sugar Bowl

This California resort can’t match the acreage and vertical drop of competing Tahoe mountains, but it stands out with trails for all ability levels and an extremely demanding expert footprint.

Northstar

This family-friendly resort offers excellent grooming and a top-tier terrain park, but expert and above-treeline terrain is lacking.

Sierra-at-Tahoe

While it can’t boast the same crazy lake views, striking terrain, or expansive base village as some other Tahoe areas, this moderately-sized resort offers reasonable prices and a local feel.

Kirkwood

This relatively undeveloped mountain isn’t for everyone, but its striking aesthetic, local feel, and extreme terrain are tough to match.

Heavenly

This Lake Tahoe area offers some of the most beautiful slopes we’ve seen anywhere. A few logistical problems diminish the resort’s size advantage.

Palisades Tahoe

Two of Tahoe’s best ski areas have now been linked as one continuous lift-served destination, but the resort still functions as two separate mountains in many ways.