Bear Valley Mountain Resort
Bear Valley (Calaveras County) · near Bear Valley / Arnold · Sierra Nevada / Yosemite
Skiing & Snowboarding
At a glance
- Pass
- indy
- Vertical
- 1900
- Size
- 1,900 acres
- Season
- Mid-December–early April · Highway 4 access (sometimes chains required)
What is here
- Best for
- Bay Area Hidden Gem · Family · Less Crowded · Indy Pass Value
Worth knowing
- Good for a first timer
- Yes
Skiing & Snowboarding detail
- Summit
- 8500
- Lifts
- 9
- Avg snowfall
- 359 inches
- Night skiing
- No
- Terrain park
- Yes
- Ski school
- Yes
- On mountain lodging
- Yes
- Signature runs
- Grizzly Bear · Kodiak · Paradise Bowl
- Intl tip
- Highway 4 over Ebbetts Pass (summer only, beyond Bear Valley) is one of California's most spectacular mountain roads — connect Bear Valley with a summer drive to Bridgeport and the Eastern Sierra for a complete Central Sierra road trip that most Californians have never made. Calaveras Big Trees State Park (giant sequoias) is 20 miles west on Highway 4 — a natural pairing with a ski day.
The guide
Bear Valley sits in the geographic center of California's outdoors — nestled between Lake Tahoe and Yosemite on Highway 4, clos…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Bear Valley Mountain Resort — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 38.4713, -120.0464