North American Ski Resorts A-Z

Sugar Bowl (California), USA

Resort height:

 2100m

 

Slopes:

 2100-2555m

 

Pistes:

 1500 acres

 

General snow cover

 

4/5

 

Snow quality (upper)

4/5

 

Snow quality (lower)

3.5/5

 

Resort level snow

4/5

 

Powder potential

4.5/5

Little known Sugar Bowl vies with nearby Kirkwood for the title of snowiest ski resort in California.

 

Generally speaking snow reliability is excellent but, like in other California resorts, snowfall is more erratic than further north in Colorado or Utah.

Sugar Bowl is one of our:

 

* Top 10 snowiest ski resorts - North America