When does Heavenly open? Opening day 2026-27
Target Nov 20
Heavenly's opening day is Friday, November 20, as posted on skiheavenly.com.
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).
Snow at Heavenly
The nearest SNOTEL station, Heavenly Valley at 8,540 feet, measured 0 inches of snow on the ground on Sunday, October 18 (no change on the day, no change on the week).
In a median year the snowpack at Heavenly Valley starts building on November 17. That is the date natural snow usually begins to stay; resorts with snowmaking can open earlier when nights are cold enough, and later when a dry November leaves nothing to groom.
National Weather Service forecast at the resort
Snowfall forecast: 0 in over the next three days and 0 in over seven, from the NWS Reno office’s gridded forecast for the base area, read Oct 19, 12:27 PM PT.
| When | Forecast | Temp |
|---|---|---|
| This Afternoon | Mostly Sunny | High 60°F |
| Tonight | Mostly Cloudy | Low 45°F |
| Tuesday | Mostly Cloudy | High 58°F |
| Tuesday Night | Mostly Cloudy then Slight Chance Light Rain | Low 43°F |
The road to Heavenly
From Reno it is about 60 miles: I-580 south to Carson City, then either US-50 west over Spooner Summit to Stateline, or on through Carson Valley and up Kingsbury Grade (SR-207) to the Stagecoach and Boulder lodges on the Nevada side. The California Lodge and the gondola sit in South Lake Tahoe itself.
Road pages with chain controls, closures and every camera: US-50 road conditions · SR-207 road conditions · US-395 road conditions. What R-1, R-2 and R-3 ask of your car is on the chain-control levels page.
Webcams near Heavenly
The state highway cameras closest to the resort, on Kingsbury Grade and South Lake Tahoe. They show the road, not the slopes: the resort’s own cameras are on skiheavenly.com.
Live video, confirmed streaming at ; still image taken .
| Camera | Road | Elevation | From the resort |
|---|---|---|---|
| US-50 at South Lake Tahoe / Ski Run | US-50 | 6,256 ft | 1.3 mi |
| SR-89 at South Lake Tahoe / US-50 | SR-89 | 6,286 ft | 3.8 mi |
| SR-207 at Daggett Summit / Tramway | SR-207 | 7,338 ft | 4.0 mi |
| US-50 at Warrior Way | US-50 | 6,259 ft | 5.3 mi |
| SR-207 at Kingsbury RWIS | SR-207 | 5,380 ft | 5.3 mi |
Heavenly Mountain Resort and the highway cameras around it.
How this page decides "open"
Announced: the resort’s own site names an opening day or a target, shown here with the date we read it. It is a plan, not a promise: a warm, dry autumn moves it. This page does not follow Heavenly’s lifts. Its opening day is the one posted on skiheavenly.com, with the date we read it; snow and the forecast here are refreshed every morning. On the day, the resort’s own lift report says what is running. Alert me sends a notification on the morning of the announced opening day.
Other Tahoe resorts
All of them on one page, with snow and forecasts side by side: Tahoe ski resort opening dates. Choosing between them from Reno: ski resorts near Reno compared.
Opening plan: as posted on Heavenly’s own site, skiheavenly.com, on the date shown. Snow on the ground: USDA NRCS SNOTEL station Heavenly Valley (518:CA:SNTL). Forecast: National Weather Service, api.weather.gov. Road status: Caltrans and NDOT. Nevada Explorer is not affiliated with Heavenly Mountain Resort.