Mountain High Resort
Wrightwood · near Wrightwood · Los Angeles / SoCal
Skiing & Snowboarding
At a glance
- Pass
- ikon
- Vertical
- 1600
- Size
- 1,600 acres
- Season
- Mid-December–late March · Night skiing 5 nights/week · 90 minutes from LA
What is here
- Best for
- After-Work Night Skiing · Closest to LA · Ikon Pass Holders · First Lessons
Worth knowing
- Good for a first timer
- Yes
Skiing & Snowboarding detail
- Summit
- 8200
- Lifts
- 13
- Avg snowfall
- 120 inches (with significant snowmaking)
- Night skiing
- Yes
- Terrain park
- Yes
- Ski school
- Yes
- On mountain lodging
- No
- Signature runs
- West Face · Sunrise · East Resort Beginner Area
- Intl tip
- Wrightwood is 6 miles from Mountain High on Big Pines Highway — a genuine mountain village with a historic character that predates the ski resort. The drive up Hwy 2 through the Angeles National Forest from the San Gabriel Valley (when open) is one of the most dramatic mountain access roads in Southern California. The Pacific Crest Trail crosses within a few miles of the resort — combine a winter ski day with a non-snow PCT section hike in the same geography.
The guide
Mountain High exists primarily to answer the question 'how close can I ski to Los Angeles on a Wednesday night after work?' The…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Mountain High Resort — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 34.3858, -117.6944