Mount Ashland

Location

Jackson County
United States
42° 10' 59.7468" N, 122° 39' 58.9176" W
US
General info: 

Mt. Ashland, just north of the California border, is halfway between San Francisco and Portland, eight 8 miles off Interstate 5. The runs and lifts are named after Shakespeare plays and characters, with Balcony and Upper Balcony (at 7,500 feet) overlooking them all. The day lodge is Elizabethan, naturally. There are some excellent bump runs, but Mt. Ashland's specialty is a cirque, a giant glacial bowl that is corniced, steep, and demanding. Double-black stuff. A casual observer might consider Mt. Ashland less than challenging, with only four chairlifts, two of which serve the higher elevations, and only 1,150 feet of vertical drop. The locals say, private://It skis a lot bigger than it looks.private://

BASE: 6350ft
SUMMIT: 7500ft
VERTICAL DROP: 1150ft

NO. OF. LIFTS: 4
Gondolas: 0
Chairs: 4
Surface: 0

Costs: 

DAY PASS ADULTS weekday: US$36.00
DAY PASS ADULTS weekend: US$43.00

We recommend to confirm the latest prices from the resorts website as the prices might have changed after last update.

You might be interested in

The ski area Ski-Arena Wildkogel is located in the heart of the Kitzbüheler Alps and is easily accessible. The Wildkogel provides a spectacular view on the threethousands of the Hohe Tauern national park and the Großvenediger (3674 m).

Winter sports and Willingen – a magical combination. With it’s sunny slopes and several kilometres of pistes, the ski area Willingen sets itself apart from other low mountain range regions.

Windham Mountain is a resort with terrific snowmaking, a cool base lodge, a quaint village, loyal and passionate guests and staff and it’s easy to get there.

The ski circuit Winterberg is the largest coherent ski area north of the Mainlinie and located in the ski region Sauerland. The ski area offers numerous well-groomed pistes for all levels of difficulty.

Wintergreen Resort is an 11,000-acre, four-season resort located in the Blue Ridge Mountains southwest of Charlottesville, Va. The area offers skiing, snowboarding and tubing, as well as championship golf once the snow melts.

At the centre of the Four Valleys, one of the largest ski areas in Europe, Verbier has everything a top-class winter-sports resort should have.

Interesting places nearby

Perched atop Tahoe’s Donner Summit, Sugar Bowl Resort is the closest major resort to Sacramento and the Bay Area.

The geography and elevation of Stevens Pass in the North Central Cascades (78 miles from Seattle), combined with dry wind from the east, make snow conditions unbeatable.

Squaw Valley USA, site of the Winter Olympic Games in 1960, is a legendary vacation destination plunked down squarely at the end of a gorgeous Sierra valley.

BASE: 5800ft
SUMMIT: 7200ft
VERTICAL DROP: 1400ft

NO. OF. LIFTS: 3
Gondolas: 0
Chairs: 2
Surface: 1

Soda Springs is one of America's original ski resorts, established in 1931. It has become a cost-saving alternative to the larger Lake Tahoe resorts.

Sierra Summit Mountain Resort is 65 miles northeast of Fresno and has 1,200 skiable acres. The resort boastd a vertical of around 1,600 feet and have nine lifts servicing the area.