One of the finest year-round mountain resort destinations in North America, Northstar Resort is host to a new base area village featuring a variety of dining and shopping options that exude mountain charm.
Mountain Stats
- Skiable Acres: 3,170
- Vertical Drop: 2,280 ft (695 m)
- Elevation (Summit): 8,610 ft (2,624 m)
- Elevation (Village): 6,330 ft (1,929 m)
- Trails: 100
- Longest Run: 1.4 miles, Logger's Loop
- Beginner: 13%
- Intermediate: 60%
- Advanced: 27%
- Gladed Tree Skiing: 7 trails, 600+ acres
- Lifts: 20
From stylish boutiques, galleries and specialty retailers, to a collection of cafes and restaurants all centered around a year-round skating rink, Northstar Resort offers a welcoming place for family and friends to relax and reconnect.
A winter sport enthusiast’s paradise, Northstar Resort offers 92 ski trails spread across 3,000 acres, award-winning terrain parks and snow sports including alpine and telemark skiing, snowboarding, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and tubing. Northstar Resort also features a variety of on-mountain dining facilities, an award-winning Ski & Snowboard School for adults and children, a new Cross-Country Ski, Telemark and Snowshoe Center, two rental shops, two demo centers, state licensed child care, lift accessed tubing hill, complimentary overnight equipment storage and more.
And, with the largest snowmaking system on the North Shore of Lake Tahoe, Northstar Resort is able to open more terrain earlier, covering 50 percent of its ski trails, and grooming more than 70 percent of the mountain each night.
Located just 38 miles from the Reno-Tahoe International Airport, six miles from historic downtown Truckee and six miles from the North Shore of Lake Tahoe, Northstar Resort’s 230 lodging units are available year-round and are situated at the base of the ski area, adjacent to the Village at Northstar.