Snowbird Ski Resort

Snowbird is just a 29 mile ride away from Salt Lake City. Getting an average 500 inches of famous Utah powder snow, the area provides you with 2500 ski-able acres. Hit the 169 runs and enjoy the ride. While the lowest chairlift can be found at 7760 feet, the resort’s highest point is 11,000 feet.
Start your skiing adventure from Snowbird Center. Take Peruvian Express High-Speed Quad to get to the area of Peruvian Gulch. Up here, 10,518 feet above sea level, you can hit a ton of black runs. Those blacks have fancy names like ‘High Baldy Traverse’, ‘Fields of Glory’ or ‘Thanks for the Memo-ries’. Tree skiing fans will be pleased with the splendid choices they have here and experts will love that they can even ski down and descend right into the valley on designated black runs. Here and there you’ll come along blue runs like ‘Rotham Way’ or ‘Chip’s Run’ but the majority of the serviced trails here is perfect for expert skiing.

Aerial Tram will also whisk you up the mountain in a wink of the eye. It also features mostly black runs and glades. Around Hidden Peak at 11,000 feet you’ll have several serious glades to your disposal. Head left when you leave the lift to find some green runs by skiing down.

For example ‚Bass Highway‘ and ‚Miner’s Road‘ are the perfect trails for be-ginners to find their way into the world of riding and skiing. Those runs are ser-viced by the ‚Wildere Lift‘. All the easy runs are further down the mountain and real easy to get to.

The ‘Mid Gad Lift‘ brings you up to Mid Gad from Creekside base. It boasts mostly green runs that are very doable for novice and further down you can hit one or the other intermediate trail. Those also carry pretty special names like ‘Lowest Bassackwards’ or ‘Madam Annes’. Gazdom High-Speed Quad ser-vices runs for every ability, so you can go there with your whole family.

‘Gad2Lift‘ is another expert only lift where beginners should really steer clear. Here, you can really only come back to the base by hitting a ton of different blacks. ‘Baby Thunder Lift’ on the other side brings you also to two blacks but is also a good ride for beginners since they can ski a lot of greens from the top.
One terrain park covers all the needs of Freestylers. The Snowbird Terrain Park is accessible via the Mid Gad or Gadzoom lifts. You’ll find it on the lower part of the Big Emma run.