Big Bear Mountain Resorts
Big Bear Lake · near Big Bear Lake · Los Angeles / SoCal
Skiing & Snowboarding
At a glance
- Pass
- ikon
- Vertical
- 1665
- Size
- 1,085 acres
- Season
- Mid-December–early April · Snowmaking covers deficiencies · Two resorts on one mountain
What is here
- Best for
- Southern California Families · Night Skiing · Terrain Park · First Lessons for Angelenos
Worth knowing
- Good for a first timer
- Yes
Skiing & Snowboarding detail
- Nickname
- Snow Summit + Bear Mountain
- Summit
- 8805
- Lifts
- 26
- Avg snowfall
- 100 inches (supplemented heavily by snowmaking)
- Night skiing
- Yes
- Terrain park
- Yes
- Ski school
- Yes
- On mountain lodging
- No
- Signature runs
- Exhibition (Bear Mountain) · The Westridge (Snow Summit) · Ego Trip (Snow Summit)
- Intl tip
- Big Bear Lake freezes in cold winters and becomes California's unlikely ice skating venue. The lake is also popular for summer kayaking and paddleboarding (covered in the MTB and kayak guides). The Rim of the World Scenic Byway (Highway 18) provides dramatic mountain driving above the San Bernardino Valley — arrive via the scenic route rather than the I-10/18 combination.
The guide
For most Southern Californians, Big Bear is not just skiing — it's the idea of skiing. The mountain is 2 hours from Los Angeles…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Big Bear Mountain Resorts — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 34.2372, -116.89