California · United States · ski area
Sugar Bowl Resort ski resort · slopes, lifts & elevation
Sugar Bowl Resort is a ski area in California, United States with 39 km of mapped downhill runs and 12 lifts, between 2,107 m and 2,550 m above sea level.
- Downhill runs
- 39 km
- Lifts
- 12
- Top elevation
- 2,550 m
- Vertical drop
- 443 m
- Nearest airport
- TKF · 17 km
Slopes by difficulty
87 runs mapped in OpenStreetMap. Colours follow the North American piste convention.
Ski lifts
- 9 Chairlifts
- 1 Gondolas
- 1 Button lifts
- 1 Magic carpets
Sugar Bowl Resort is a ski area in California, the United States. Its 87 mapped downhill runs add up to 39 km, which ranks it #69 of 960 ski areas in the United States and gives it 0.4% of all the country's slopes. The average run is about 444 m long.
Slopes at Sugar Bowl Resort
About 17% of the slopes are beginner or easy runs, 52% intermediate and 30% advanced or expert, which makes Sugar Bowl Resort best suited to confident and advanced skiers.
Lifts and elevation
The resort has 12 lifts: 9 chairlifts, 1 gondola, 1 button lift, 1 magic carpet. Most of them are chairlifts or gondolas, so you ride seated. Skiing runs from 2,107 m up to 2,550 m, a vertical drop of 443 m. The high top station usually means reliable snow well into spring.
Getting to Sugar Bowl Resort
The nearest airport is Truckee Tahoe Airport (TKF), about 17 km away in a straight line — roughly 22 minutes by car; Reno Tahoe International Airport (RNO) is 53 km away. Nearby ski areas include Christmas Tree Homesites, Donner Ski Ranch (18.1 km), Boreal Mountain Resort (14.0 km) and Soda Springs (6.9 km), which together add 48 km of slopes for a multi-resort trip.
Nearest airports to Sugar Bowl Resort
- 1 TKF17 kmstraight line
- 2Reno Tahoe International AirportRNO53 kmstraight lineReno, United States
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- 3Sacramento International AirportSMF128 kmstraight lineSacramento, United States
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- 4 SCK175 kmstraight line
Nearby
Ski resorts near Sugar Bowl Resort
- 0 kmChristmas Tree Homesitesup to 2,317 m
- 2 kmDonner Ski Ranch18 km of slopes · 8 lifts · up to 2,363 m
- 3 kmBoreal Mountain Resort14 km of slopes · 7 lifts · up to 2,346 m
- 5 kmSoda Springs6.9 km of slopes · 6 lifts · up to 2,227 m
- 8 kmTahoe Donner Downhill Ski Area8.7 km of slopes · 5 lifts · up to 2,219 m
- 8 kmTahoe Donner Downhill Ski Area5 lifts · up to 2,219 m
- 10 kmKingvaleSmall ski area
- 14 kmPalisades Tahoe Olympic Valley67 km of slopes · 27 lifts · up to 2,663 m
- 18 kmNorthstar at Tahoe Resort83 km of slopes · 20 lifts · up to 2,625 m
- 18 kmPalisades Tahoe Alpine Meadows38 km of slopes · 17 lifts · up to 2,588 m
- 23 kmGranlibakken Ski Resort0.2 km of slopes · 1 lift · up to 1,997 m
- 29 kmHomewood Ski Area35 km of slopes · 7 lifts · up to 2,402 m
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Data: OpenSkiMap — © OpenStreetMap contributors & Skimap.org (ODbL 1.0). Run lengths are measured along mapped pistes; resorts may publish different figures.