Ski Areas
Don't just dream about pristine conditions - experience them!
Ski Oregon
From high-tech lifts and luxurious lodges to rugged wilderness areas and warming huts, Oregon has everything under the sun to help you enjoy the snow all year round. While it's tempting to keep Oregon's premiere winter destinations to ourselves (like a sacred fishing hole, it's hard to share a secret powder stash), our spectacular scenery, world class terrain, and legendary long season are best enjoyed in the company of friends and family. Ranging from community ski hills to destination resorts, Oregon has a great secret to share, so it's time to start planning your escape to explore our natural snowy wonders.
Ride the endless winter
While skiing and snowboarding in Oregon, you can experience 11 unique ski areas that offer more than 16,000 acres of skiing, 400 runs, 71 ski lifts, 13 terrain parks, snow cat skiing and around 400 inches of snowfall annually. Oregon is home to the largest night ski area and longest ski season in North America, where on Mt. Hood you can ski steep, deep bowls at night or ride the corduroy in August!
We feel skiing and snowboarding is something that strikes the adventure and passion in a person's life, and we 
invite you to share that experience. Oregon is a special place where you can escape to get back to the roots of your skiing and riding. Back for the love.
Abundant
The first things you'll notice when you arrive in mid-winter are the humongous banks of snow at the edges of the parking lot. Oregon's mountains enjoy an abundance of natural snowfall, often more than 25 feet annually! Our maritime climate, characterized by the deep snowfall and relatively mild air temperatures, rarely needs assistance from snowmaking machines. Storms rolling in off the Pacific drop 8 to 10 inches of new snow with great frequency, prompting "powder chasers" to road trip up and down I-5 or Hwy 97 to escape into the Cascade and Siskiyou mountains, or out I-84 to rugged eastern Oregon, where Ski Anthony Lakes has the highest base elevation (7,100') and some of the driest snow anywhere.
Endless
Oregon boasts the longest ski season in North America, where ski areas open in November (sometimes even October) and continue into April or May. Timberline's Palmer Snowfield in North America's only year-round ski area, where the season never ends for skiing or riding! But that's not all...our ski areas don't close for lack of snow, but for lack of skiers! Spring conditions are better here than anywhere else on the planet, but they haven't been discovered. Last season, Mt. Hood Meadows challenged skiers to keep skiing so they could stay open longer - and they skied into June!
Authentic
Oregon's ski areas remain true to the state's century-old heritage of winter sports. In addition to having big alpine descents, including 3 mountains with vertical drops greater than 2,700', most areas also have groomed Nordic trails for cross country skiing and snowshoeing. Mt. Bachelor pushes the limits with its Nordic freestyle terrain park - a quarter mile of specially crafted table-top jumps, spines, rollers, and 
whoop-dee-dos. Several areas have lift served winter-tubing, snowskates, snow bikes or ski boards. Thousands of acres of backcountry access from the snowcat skiing opportunities at Mt. Bailey and Ski Anthony Lakes.
Planning an overnight visit? With enough folklore to make it an Oregon icon, Timberline Lodge is Oregon's quintessential ski lodge. Communities near all of Oregon's ski areas offer unique and convenient lodging, dining and shopping opportunities just downhill from the slopes. Regardless of where you stay, Oregon will shower you with genuine hospitality.
Accessible
Oregon cities are super convenient to snow country, generally within a 1-hour drive. Motor coaches serve most ski areas, so you can leave the pleasures of winter driving to a professional driver - contact Josh at Sea to Summit. Southern and Eastern Oregon have the same advantages, but with less traffic - Ashland, Bend, Pendleton, La 
Grande, Baker City and Lakeview are each just 10-45 minutes to their nearest ski area.
Affordable
Oregon has some of the most affordable lift tickets in North America. Adult lift tickets start at just $20, and new this year is the Mt. Hood Fusion Pass, good at both Skibowl and Timberline. In addition to price, value can be found in Oregon's mountains. Our ski area operators have invested significantly in upgrades and expansions during the last decade, including several new high-speed express lifts, 6-passenger chairlift that converts to a gondola for summer sightseeing at Willamette Pass.
Tracks & Trails
Groomed trails for Nordic skiing are available at ski areas throughout Oregon's National Forests as well as the Meacham Divide Nordic Park near La Grande. Snow camping and telemark enthusiasts seek out secluded powdery bowls, such as Tumalo Mountain in the Central Cascades, Mt. Howard in the Wallowas, and Steens Mountain in southeast Oregon. With snowshoes, vast areas of pristine terrain become accessible for exploring or camping.
Ride through winter scenery on a sled or horse-drawn sleigh. With a professional sled dog racer at the helm, dogs in 
training for the Iditarod enthusiastically take you into the forest at Mt. Bachelor. Sleigh rides right out of Currier and Ives are offered at some resorts, and at the Elkhorn Wildlife Area near Baker City, a horse-drawn wagon takes visitors to winter elk feeding grounds.
Sustainable
When you look beyond out deep snow banks, you'll see the respect Oregon's ski area operators have for our mountains and dormant volcanoes. They work closely with the U.S. Forest Service to help sustain viable communities and healthy ecosystems while providing recreation and public enjoyment of the National Forests where most ski areas are located. Mt. Ashland, Mt. Bachelor and Mt. Hood Meadows have won national environmental stewardship awards.
The Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF) offers Green Tags to help fight global warming. Green Tags represent the environmental benefits produced when clean renewable energy (such as wind or solar power) replaces energy from burning fossil fuels. For example, the Shooting Star lift at Mt. Hood Meadows, the Sunrise Express and (New) Pine Martin Express at Mt. Bachelor all run on 100% wind energy! Also this year, Mt. Ashland became the first Pacific Northwest Ski Area to offset 100% of its annual electrical use with renewable energy!
Add a $2 Mini-Green Tag to your lift ticket to help offset the air emissions caused by driving to the slopes. One Mini-Green Tag equals the emissions caused by the average round-trip from Portland to Mt. Hood!
