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Mount Rose Ski Tahoe

5 / 100 Powder Score
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Mount Rose Ski Tahoe is a ski area in United States. It sits at about 2,767 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 3.2 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 95 marked runs and 12 lifts, totalling about 36 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 275 cm of snowfall a season, 601st (tied) of the 3,112 ski areas we measure worldwide. The model runs well below what resorts report, so the ranking is the meaningful part rather than the centimetre figure. 13 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

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Snow 48h
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Next 24h
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Next 72h
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Temperature
6.4℃
Max wind
38km/h
Elevation
2,767m
Area
3.2km²

Elevation of the ski area’s centre point, taken from a digital elevation model. It is not the base-to-summit range.

We do not show a snow depth here. The weather model we use reports snow lying on the ground — it knows nothing about grooming or snowmaking, and it is not the base depth a ski area publishes. In Japan we can check our figures against 234 weather stations. Outside Japan there is nothing to check them against, so we do not print a number we have not verified.

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 3/10
Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
☁️ 26 Sept 0 3.9 / 11.7 46.4
☁️ 27 Sept 0 3.5 / 9.6 38
☁️ 28 Sept 0 0.9 / 11.3 25.9
🌤️ 29 Sept 0 -0.5 / 16 10.7
☀️ 30 Sept 0 1.9 / 20.4 8.5
🌤️ 1 Oct 0 4.2 / 20.2 20.3
☁️ 2 Oct 0 5.5 / 19.4 12.3

Runs and lifts

Counted from the runs and lifts drawn on OpenStreetMap, within the boundary of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Marked runs
55
Run length
24km
Lifts
8
Vertical
495m
Top 2,915 m · base 2,419 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

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The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.3 km
Steepest pitch36°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs13.2°

Which way the slopes face

North 63%
East 25%
South 4%
West 7%

88% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.

By difficulty

Novice 1
Easy 19
Intermediate 17
Advanced 17
Other 1

Lift types

  • Chairlift6
  • Magic carpet2

See past trail maps on Skimap.org ↗

Source: OpenSkiMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Vertical is the difference between the highest and lowest points of the mapped runs and lifts.

Live Cameras

This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.

Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.

Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com

How much snow it gets

Measured by us across 3,112 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
275 cm
per season
Range over three winters
127 cm
202–329 cm. The best winter was 1.6x the worst.
World rank
601
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
49
of 541 in United States
Elevation rank
43
Highest to lowest, of 541 in United States. The centre point sits at 2,767 m, 2,233 m above the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. Ski areas a few kilometres apart share a weather grid cell and can return the same figure.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Diamond Peak7.7 km240 cm821
Northstar at Tahoe Resort23 km318 cm408
Tahoe Donner Downhill Ski Area33 km447 cm121
Palisades Tahoe33 km394 cm174
Palisades Tahoe Alpine Meadows36 km503 cm71

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings 93% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in the United States (85%). In amount, March brings 75 cm, more than the median of 30 cm.

83cm
Dec
81cm
Jan
81cm
Feb
75cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Map

Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.

More places to look

Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28

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