Because the resort also opened earlier than ever before in November, this season’s 156-day ski season will be the longest recorded in the resort’s 80-year history.ĭeer Valley Resort and Park City Mountain Resort, also located just outside of Salt Lake City, are also extending their seasons, per KSLTV. Snowbasin Resort, situated about 40 miles north of Salt Lake City, now plans to stay open until April 23, reports KSLTV’s Madison Swenson. Resorts in Utah and Colorado are benefiting from the increased snowfall, as well. Several other California ski areas have also added additional days to their seasons, per the Tahoe Daily Tribune and the Reno Gazette Journal’s Amy Alonzo: Heavenly Mountain Resort, Northstar California, Kirkwood Mountain Resort, Sugar Bowl Resort and Palisades Tahoe.Ĭalifornia's Mammoth Mountain plans to stay open for skiers this summer. “This is likely to be the best spring skiing and riding the eastern Sierra has ever seen,” says Lauren Burke, Mammoth Mountain’s spokesperson, to the Los Angeles Times’ Christopher Reynolds. The resort has already gotten 634 inches of snow and is on track to break its previous record of 668 inches, set in 2010-11, before the season is over. Mammoth Mountain, located on the eastern edge of California’s Sierra Nevada mountain range, will also extend its season until “AT LEAST the end of July,” as the resort wrote in a post on its Facebook page. This season, the resort has so far gotten 210 inches of snow, a record high in at least the past 20 years, per the Orange County Register’s Laylan Connelly.
And this spring, there’s plenty of powder to go around.Ĭalifornia’s Big Bear Mountain Resort, located about 100 miles east of Los Angeles, has extended its winter season by at least three weeks and will now stay open until April 30, reports Julia Schneemann for SnowBrains. Ski areas typically try to keep their chairlifts and gondolas running as long as possible, provided that enough snow is covering their runs. After being pummeled by a string of unusually strong snowstorms over the winter, ski areas in the Western United States are extending their seasons-and one resort even plans to stay open until July.
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