Lake Tahoe

Palisades Tahoe Adds Double-Black Diamond Rating for First Time Ever; Alpine Meadows Gets Designation for First Time Since 2012

Along with the brand new gondola connecting its two resort sides, this massive California resort is adding an overhauled trail rating scale.

Homewood Jacks up 1-Day Prices to as High as $279, Becomes Most Expensive Lift Ticket in North America

This small Lake Tahoe resort now outcharges world-class destinations such as Vail, Deer Valley, and Palisades Tahoe at the ticket window. In-advance purchase tickets are cheaper, but a number of facets make them a risky proposition.

These Are the 10 Highest Ski Resort Lift Ticket Prices In North America This Winter

If you’re on the fence about buying an Epic or Ikon product before they go off sale within the next few days, these rates are arguably the best case for doing so.

Sierra-at-Tahoe Has Reopened With a Radically Transformed Footprint. Here Are Our Initial Thoughts.

Sierra’s famous tree terrain will be almost entirely missing this season, but the fire damage looks to have brought about new, unique terrain features across the resort. We hope to stop by in the coming weeks to check out the revitalization for ourselves.

Palisades Tahoe Red Dog Six-Pack: A Much-Needed Upgrade, Finally Unleashed

Despite a few quirks, this new lift substantially improves the below-treeline experience at Tahoe’s largest resort.

These Are the Best Value Ski Destination Lift Tickets In North America This Winter

All of these resorts offer well-above-average on-mountain experiences for lift ticket prices that undercut scores of similarly good competitors—and if you didn’t pick up an Epic or Ikon pass product before the season started, it’s hard to have your dollar go further than at these peaks.

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.