Sugar Bowl Ski Resort
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| Location | 629 Sugar Bowl Rd, Norden, CA 95724 |
| Nearest city | Norden, California |
| Coordinates | 39°18′16″N 120°20′09″W / 39.30444°N 120.33583°WCoordinates: 39°18′16″N 120°20′09″W / 39.30444°N 120.33583°W |
| Top elevation | 8,383 ft (2,555 m) |
| Base elevation | 6,883 ft (2,098 m) |
| Skiable area | 1,650 acres (670 ha) |
| Runs | 103 total 17% beginner 45% intermediate 38% advanced |
| Longest run | 3 mi (4.8 km) |
| Lift system | 13 lifts (5 high speed quads, 3 quads, 2 double chairs, 1 gondola, 2 surface lifts |
| Lift capacity | 21,740 passengers/hr |
| Snowfall | 500 in (1,300 cm) |
| Website | www.sugarbowl.com |
Sugar Bowl is a ski and snowboard area in northern Placer County near Norden, California along the Donner Pass of the Sierra Nevada, approximately 46 mi (74 km) west of Reno, Nevada on Interstate 80, that opened on December 15, 1939. Sugar Bowl is a medium sized ski area in the Lake Tahoe region, and is well known for its long history, significant advanced terrain, high annual snowfall and being one of the closest ski areas to the San Francisco Bay Area. Sugar Bowl's terrain is 17% Beginner, 45% Intermediate and 38% Advanced.
Sugar Bowl was founded by Hannes Schroll and a group of individual investors and is one of the few remaining privately owned resorts in the Lake Tahoe area. Sugar Bowl was the first ski area in California to install a chairlift and the first on the west coast to install a gondola lift.
The mountain peaks of Mt. Judah and Mt. Lincoln, that eventually became the ski slopes of the Sugar Bowl ski resort, were a part of the American pioneers route, back in the 1800s. A part of the California wagon trail called Roller Pass ran between Mt. Judah and Mt. Lincoln. It was one of the wagon trails through Donner Pass that was used by settlers and prospectors, on the Emigrant Trail, coming from the eastern United States across the Sierra Nevada. Today the same pass can be reached by way of the Pacific Crest Trail or a new trail created by Sugar Bowl ski resort, in 1994, called the Mt. Judah Loop trail.
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