Palisades Tahoe Alpine Meadows
- Snow 24h
- 0 cm
- Next 24h
- 1 cm
- Temperature
- 0°C
- Max wind
- 24 km/h
- Elevation
- 2,090–2,589 m
- Across
- 4.9 km
Updated: 12 Oct 2026, 09:34
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.
7-day outlook
| Date | Weather | Snow (cm) | Low / high (°C) | Wind (km/h) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 11 Oct | Cloudy | 0 | −2 to 8 | 31 |
| Mon 12 Oct | Snow | 2 | −3 to 5 | 18 |
| Tue 13 Oct | Partly cloudy | 0 | −5 to 11 | 15 |
| Wed 14 Oct | Partly cloudy | 0 | −1 to 16 | 11 |
| Thu 15 Oct | Clear | 0 | 2 to 16 | 15 |
| Fri 16 Oct | Clear | 0 | 2 to 22 | 12 |
| Sat 17 Oct | Clear | 0 | 4 to 20 | 18 |
Score breakdown
The five add up to the 100-point Powder Score: more fresh snow, more on the way and colder air all push it up. How we measure
Palisades Tahoe Alpine Meadows, in United States, runs from 2,090 m at the base to 2,589 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 4.9 km across, with 93 marked runs and 14 lifts (about 35 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 587 cm of snowfall a season, 46th of 3,069 worldwide and 4th in the United States. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2022/23 (1,086 cm), brought more than 6 times as much as the leanest, 2014/15 (172 cm). March is usually the snowiest month, with about 154 cm.
The nearest city of any size is Reno, about 55 km away in a straight line.
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.
Run map
Slope shape, difficulty and lift types
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
59% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east; plenty of the terrain faces the sun as well, so the lean is modest.
By difficulty
Lift types
- Chairlift12
- 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 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Compared with what is nearby
Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. The weather model works on cells about 30 km across; ski areas in the same cell get the same figure, and these numbers cannot separate them.
| Ski area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palisades Tahoe | 5.0 km | 477 cm | 92 |
| Homewood Ski Area | 10.0 km | 576 cm | 49 |
| Northstar at Tahoe Resort | 14.0 km | 390 cm | 193 |
| Sugar Bowl Resort | 19.0 km | 620 cm | 35 |
| Tahoe Donner Downhill Ski Area | 22.0 km | 519 cm | 79 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 154 cm, more than the median of 30 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 587 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 172 cm; the biggest was 2022/23 with 1,086 cm (6.3 times as much). For 33% of the 534 ski areas in the United States, the leanest winter was the same 2014/15: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
Map
The weather map, and where it sits among nearby ski areas.
More places to look
Guides covering United States
- Which Famous Ski Resorts Actually Get the Most Snow? 24 Names, Measured Niseko is 526th in the world for snowfall. Zermatt is 554th, Jackson Hole 924th, Aspen 1,201st. Measured identically across 3,069 ski areas, the names everyone books and the places it actually snows turn out to be two different lists.
- A Black Run in Colorado and a Black Run in Austria Are Not the Same Thing. The Maps Prove It. Across 2,888 ski areas: 39% of American runs are graded advanced or harder, and 9% of Austrian ones. Nobody thinks Austria is four times gentler. The grades are measuring different things.
- Niseko vs Whistler: Whistler Is the Outlier, Vail Is the Rule Whistler is the world's 29th snowiest ski area. Vail is 1,335th — and 288 Japanese ski areas get more snow than the resort that defines American skiing.