Homewood Mountain Resort
Homewood (West Shore, Lake Tahoe) · near Homewood / Tahoe City · Sierra Nevada / Yosemite
Skiing & Snowboarding
At a glance
- Pass
- independent
- Vertical
- 1650
- Size
- 1,260 acres
- Season
- Mid-December–early April · Reopened for 2025-26 after a year closed · New gondola in development
What is here
- Best for
- Powder Days · Lake Views · Tree Skiing · Uncrowded
Worth knowing
- Good for a first timer
- Yes
Skiing & Snowboarding detail
- Nickname
- The Deep-Snow Lake-View Secret
- Summit
- 7880
- Lifts
- 8
- Avg snowfall
- 450 inches
- Night skiing
- No
- Terrain park
- Yes
- Ski school
- Yes
- On mountain lodging
- No
- Signature runs
- The Face (Ellis Peak side) · Rainbow Ridge · The tree skiing
- Intl tip
- Homewood sits on Tahoe's quieter West Shore, 10 minutes from Tahoe City. The West Shore Cafe (waterfront dining) is directly across the street, and Sunnyside's fish tacos are en route to Tahoe City. Combine with summer's Flume Trail MTB and lake paddling (those guides) for a year-round West Shore base.
The guide
Homewood is Tahoe's deep-snow secret — a modest, unpretentious resort on the West Shore, perched directly above the lake with a…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Homewood Mountain Resort — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 39.083, -120.161