Mountain Review: 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.
Mountain Review: 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.
Mountain Review: Mount Rose
Despite its high elevation, a number of shortcomings detract from this Nevada mountain’s appeal as a destination resort.
Mountain Review: 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.
Mountain Review: 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.
Mountain Review: Northstar
This family-friendly resort offers excellent grooming and a top-tier terrain park, but expert and above-treeline terrain is lacking.
Mountain Review: 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.
Mountain Review: Kirkwood
This relatively undeveloped mountain isn’t for everyone, but its striking aesthetic, local feel, and extreme terrain are tough to match.
Mountain Review: 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.
Mountain Review: Palisades Tahoe - Alpine Meadows
Really still more of a local mountain than a true resort, this often overlooked Lake Tahoe spot offers low crowds, untracked slopes, and surprisingly extreme terrain.