Mt. Rose - Ski Tahoe - Community Reviews & Ratings

Mount Rose is the best "locals" city-proximate ski hill in North America and one of the very best in the world. I don't offer that up lightly. It remains an insider's gem. Great steep terrain, tree and off-piste runs, backcountry access, brilliant beginner intermediate runs and one of the most consistent snowpacks in the US. The Chutes remain the signature expert ski area in the resort and live up to the local hype - they offer proper steep-skiing, but with options at easier levels, so kids or advanced skiers can have the enjoyment of having "skied the Chutes". Mount Rose retains a fun, down-to-earth, functional and friendly vibe. You will see generations of families up there at the weekends, older skiers or snowboarders, who have been shredding these slopes for 4-5 decades, and high school kids or students taking advantage of the many locals offers. Ticket prices remain reasonable and aren't oversold. Queues do occur at peak weekends, but even then are not too bad compared to other Tahoe resorts. By and large, especially weekdays, you don't expect to wait more than 5 mins to get on a lift ... and regularly it is effectively ski-on at most lifts. Mount Rose is perfectly located on the most awkward side of Lake Tahoe to get to from the Bay Area. Hence, the other bigger Tahoe resorts soak up a lot of the skiers & snowboarders from that area, leaving Mount Rose to remain the perfect locals ski hill. Reno/Sparks/Carson City is now a population area of over 400,000 folk; there's a good-size airport and major industry employers (Tesla, Amazon, Microsoft, etc): but the brilliant lift system and terrain is more than able to cope with that. Do come and ski Mount Rose, but just don't tell anyone else about it!