Following a delay in opening for the season, a pair of Tahoe’s largest ski resorts announced they will be opening this week. Heavenly ski resort in South Lake Tahoe will open Tuesday (Nov. 21) and Northstar California in Truckee will be running its lifts for the first time Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 23). Last week, both […]
Tahoe ski resort openings
Triumphant reopening for Sierra-at-Tahoe
Getting back to “normal” has been quite the journey for fire-ravaged Sierra-at-Tahoe. Yet through persistence, the venerable Tahoe ski resort is back in business – starting today. Sierra-at-Tahoe has much to celebrate Saturday (Dec. 3) in its reopening after suffering huge damage during the August 2021 fire. The opening comes 16 months after the Caldor […]
Vail Resorts in Tahoe opening Saturday
Thanks to a snowfall that delivered in feet – not just inches – four more Tahoe ski resorts will be open this weekend. The three Vail Resorts in Lake Tahoe – Heavenly, Northstar, Kirkwood – announced Thursday morning its opening day will be Saturday (Nov. 12). Boreal Mountain will open one day earlier, joining Mt. […]
Palisades will debut new Base-to-Base Gondola
There’s little doubt what the big news will be this ski season for Palisades Tahoe. The world-renown Tahoe ski resort will open the long-awaited Gondola that connects the two resorts that have been under the same name for years. Palisades Tahoe received 8 inches of snow Monday (Nov. 7) and has a season-total of 30 […]
All Tahoe ski resorts now open
Although the start of ski season looked bleak a week ago, it only took a subsequent six days for every Tahoe ski resort to open with considerable terrain for skiers and snowboarders. On Saturday (Dec. 18), Tahoe Donner became the last of 12 Tahoe ski resorts to begin running lifts. That’s fantastic news heading into […]
Three more Tahoe ski resorts open this week
Winter arrived with a vengeance the past three days and the extreme snowstorm has led to three more Tahoe ski resorts opening this week. Sugar Bowl and Homewood Mountain will begin running their lifts Wednesday (Dec. 15) and one day later Diamond Peak will open for skiing and snowboarding. Thanks to 3-6 feet of snow […]
Northstar ski resort opening Dec. 12
A third Vail Resort in Lake Tahoe will be opening this weekend. Northstar California ski resort announced Friday it would be open for skiing and snowboarding Sunday (Dec. 12). Two other Vail resorts in Tahoe – Kirkwood and Heavenly – are both opening Saturday (December 11). Located off Highway 267 in Truckee, Northstar entered this […]
Tahoe ski resort openings
Two Tahoe ski resorts already opened for the 2021-22 season. And many more are expected to join those two later this month. Benefitting from a sizable snowfall in late October, both Palisades Tahoe and Boreal Mountain opened Oct. 29. However, due to rising temperature and marginal snow conditions, both Boreal and Palisades are currently closed […]
11 Tahoe ski resorts open
Despite a lack of natural snowfall, Lake Tahoe now has 11 ski resorts open for the 2020-21 season. Kirkwood Mountain and Diamond Peak both staged openers Friday (Dec. 4), pushing the number of Tahoe ski resorts into double figures. There were nine Tahoe ski resorts open for Thanksgiving weekend. While natural snowfall has been scarce […]
Diamond Peak ski resort opens Dec. 4
For Diamond Peak passholders, the wait is over. The popular Tahoe ski resort in Incline Village will be open to season passholders and IVGID Passholders, starting Friday (Dec. 4). Diamond Peak considers this a “soft” opening day. The family-friendly ski resort will be open to the general public Dec. 10. Unlike several Tahoe ski resorts, […]