Boreal snow report today
No snow on the ground at the Central Sierra Snow Lab gauge (6,890 ft) at 1 AM PDT. No change in 24 hours; down 1 inch in 48 hours; down 1 inch in 7 days. This week's deepest: 10 inches, Oct 24, 10:00 AM PDT. Gauge read .
Snow depth from the USDA Central Sierra Snow Lab SNOTEL gauge, 1.2 miles south-west of Boreal at 6,890 ft, read every hour.
| On the ground | none |
|---|---|
| Change in 24 hours | no change |
| Change in 48 hours | down 1 in |
| Change in 7 days | down 1 in |
| Deepest in the last 7 days | 10 inches, Oct 24, 10:00 AM PDT |
| Air temperature | 27°F |
Opening-day alerts
A notification on this device on opening day, early in the morning, with a link to the resort’s own report. Pick your resorts:
For Mt. Rose, Sugar Bowl and Diamond Peak it comes the morning their lift page first shows a lift running; for the others, the morning of the opening day they announced, whether or not it holds. It is a heads-up, not the resort’s report: check the resort’s own site for hours and terrain before you go. One alert per resort; no account, no email, and you can turn them off here any time (what we keep).
Boreal’s own snow report
Boreal’s terms of use do not allow its site to be read by a program, so this page does not copy its report. Its base depth, new snow, lifts and trails open, grooming and surface conditions are on rideboreal.com, posted by the resort each morning in season. What is here is measured independently, by the federal gauge on or near the mountain.
Boreal opening day: No date yet.Boreal has not posted an opening day on rideboreal.com.
Chains on the way to Boreal now
Donner Pass now
No chain controls at Donner Pass (Caltrans). Checked .
Do I need chains on Donner Pass? · Donner Pass webcam · Do I need chains to get to Boreal from Sacramento?
Snow, next 72 hours at Boreal: none · How much snow is Boreal getting: the 72-hour forecast →
Where the snow is measured
The gauge is SNOTEL station Central Sierra Snow Lab (428:CA:SNTL), run by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. It stands 1.2 miles south-west of Boreal at 6,890 ft and reports every hour: snow depth from a sonic sensor over the ground, the water held in the snow from a pressure pillow, and the air temperature. The same gauge serves Sugar Bowl, which is nearby.
“New snow” here is how much deeper the snow is than 24 hours, 48 hours and 7 days earlier. Fresh snow settles as it lands and melts on warm afternoons, so a rise is the least that fell, and a fall can mean melt rather than wind. When a storm comes and goes inside the week, the deepest reading of the week is shown with its time. A reading older than six hours is not shown as current: the page says when the gauge last reported instead.
Webcams near Boreal
The state highway cameras closest to the resort, on I-80 at Donner Summit and Castle Peak. They show the road and the snow along it; the resort’s own slope cameras are on rideboreal.com.
Live video, confirmed streaming at ; still image taken .
- I-80 at Castle Peak
- I-80 at Soda Springs - Eastbound
- I-80 at Donner Lake
- I-80 at Kingvale - Westbound
Boreal Mountain Resort, its snow gauge and the highway cameras around it.
The road to Boreal
Right on the interstate: I-80 west from Reno, about 45 miles, to the Castle Peak/Boreal Ridge Road exit at Donner Summit. The base lodge is beside the freeway, so the I-80 report is the Boreal road report.
Road conditions, chain controls and every camera: I-80.
Snow reports for the other Tahoe resorts
All ten side by side: the Tahoe snow report. One page each: Heavenly · Palisades Tahoe · Northstar · Mt. Rose · Kirkwood · Sugar Bowl · Diamond Peak · Sierra-at-Tahoe · Homewood.
- When does Boreal open? Opening day and lifts
- Boreal snow forecast for the next 72 hours
- Tahoe ski resort opening dates
Snow on the ground: USDA NRCS SNOTEL station Central Sierra Snow Lab (428:CA:SNTL), public domain, provisional data, read hourly. Resort report: linked, not copied. Chain control: Caltrans and NDOT, read every five minutes. Nevada Explorer is not affiliated with Boreal Mountain Resort.