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Palisades Tahoe

⛰️ 1890–2760 m (870 m vertical) · 🎟️ $249 day pass (≈ €229) · 📅 Nov 26 to May 25

🧳 Plan a trip here 🛏️ Beds near the lifts ⏱️ Lift queues 🗺️ Piste map

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Snowlist score

Photo: Wikipedia

Ratings

❄️ Snow

7.2

⛰️ Terrain

1.2

🚠 Lifts

5.8

⏱️ Queues

4.6

💸 Value

1.8

🍻 Après

0.0

✈️ Access

8.3

Hover a bar to see what goes into it. Scores sit on a bell curve. 6.5 is a normal good resort and 8 or more is unusual. Method.

Key facts

Altitude	1890–2760 m
Vertical drop	870 m
Pistes advertised	6,000 acres
Pistes mapped on OSM	0 km
Lifts (mapped near village)	0 · 40% gondola/4+ chair
Day pass	$249
Passes	Ikon
Avg snowfall (mid)	6.7 m / season
Nearest airport	RNO · 60 min

Snow & weather updated 1 h ago

Fresh 24 h

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Fresh 72 h

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Next 7 days

45 cm

Snow depth top (model)

0 cm

Now at 2610 m

☁️ 0°

Now at 1890 m

1°

Gusts at top

13 km/h

Freezing level

3,390 m

8-day forecast (summit)

Today

☁️

-2° / 6°

💨 57

Fri

🌨️

12 cm

-3° / 0°

💨 48

Sat

❄️

26 cm

-4° / -1°

💨 38

Sun

🌨️

7 cm

-10° / -3°

💨 19

Mon

🌫️

-9° / -1°

💨 12

Tue

🌦️

-8° / 3°

💨 5

Wed

🌫️

-7° / 4°

💨 8

Thu

☁️

-8° / 2°

💨 8

Open-Meteo forecast downscaled to 2610 m (summit) and 1890 m (base). Rain line ≈ freezing level minus 300 m.

The last three winters at 2325 m

Avg snowfall / season

6.7 m

Powder days (15 cm+)

Snowy days

Avg temp at base

-0.5°

Average snowfall by month · best: Mar

Nov

Dec

127

Jan

125

Feb

144

Mar

194

Apr

By season: 2022/23: 9.5 m · 29 powder days2023/24: 4.9 m · 7 powder days2024/25: 5.5 m · 12 powder days

Lift queues

No lifts are mapped on OpenStreetMap around this village yet. Map them and they will show up here after the next rebuild.

Simulate:

Typical week (February, since the resort is closed now)

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Average predicted wait across lifts. ■ <2 min ■ 4-7 min ■ 11+ min. Hover a day to see why.

How we guess. The model starts from the resort's usual crowd level and adjusts for school holidays (French zones, UK half-term, Presidents' Day, Lunar New Year), weekends, time of day, lift capacity from OpenStreetMap, powder days and summit wind. When skiers on the hill tap a wait time, their reports replace the guess for 45 minutes and the lift shows LIVE.

Map

Pistes (OpenSnowMap) Lifts by queue Hotels Bars 3D· Drag to tilt. Tap the map to drop a 📍 and the hotels re-sort by distance to it, handy for ski school or a friend's chalet.

Where to sleep 0 places mapped · 0 ski-in/ski-out

Ski access score: 9.5 means ski-in/ski-out (a piste within 70 m and a lift within 600 m). Each minute of walking to the nearest lift costs about half a point. Distances are straight lines on OpenStreetMap, so add about 30% for the walk.

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Reviews

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Getting there

Nearest major airport: RNO, about 60 min away by road. Directions · Flights

Palisades Tahoe is a ski resort in the Western United States, located in Olympic Valley, California, northwest of Tahoe City in the Sierra Nevada range. Founded 77 years ago in 1949 as Squaw Valley, it changed its name in 2021 due to the derogatory connotations of the word "squaw". It was the host site for the 1960 Winter Olympics. Wikipedia