Heavenly snow report today
No snow on the ground at the Heavenly Valley gauge (8,540 ft) at 1 AM PDT. No change in 24 hours; no change in 48 hours; no change in 7 days. Gauge read .
Snow depth from the USDA Heavenly Valley SNOTEL gauge, 1.5 miles south-east of Heavenly at 8,540 ft, read every hour.
| On the ground | none |
|---|---|
| Change in 24 hours | no change |
| Change in 48 hours | no change |
| Change in 7 days | no change |
| Water in the snow | 0 in |
| Air temperature | 26°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).
Heavenly’s own snow report
Heavenly’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 skiheavenly.com, posted by the resort each morning in season. What is here is measured independently, by the federal gauge on or near the mountain.
Heavenly opening day: Target Nov 20.Heavenly's opening day is Friday, November 20, as posted on skiheavenly.com.
Chains on the way to Heavenly now
Kingsbury Grade now
No chain controls at Kingsbury Grade (NDOT). Checked .
Spooner Summit now
No chain controls at Spooner Summit (NDOT). Checked .
Echo Summit now
No chain controls at Echo Summit (Caltrans). Checked .
Do I need chains on Kingsbury Grade? · Kingsbury Grade webcam · Spooner Summit webcam · Do I need chains on Echo Summit? · Echo Summit webcam · Do I need chains to get to Heavenly from Sacramento?
Snow, next 72 hours at Heavenly: none · How much snow is Heavenly getting: the 72-hour forecast →
Where the snow is measured
The gauge is SNOTEL station Heavenly Valley (518:CA:SNTL), run by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. It stands 1.5 miles south-east of Heavenly at 8,540 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.
“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 Heavenly
The state highway cameras closest to the resort, on Kingsbury Grade and South Lake Tahoe. They show the road and the snow along it; the resort’s own slope cameras are on skiheavenly.com.
Live video, confirmed streaming at ; still image taken .
- SR-89 at South Lake Tahoe / US-50
- SR-207 at Daggett Summit / Tramway
- US-50 at Warrior Way
- SR-207 at Kingsbury RWIS
Heavenly Mountain Resort, its snow gauge and the highway cameras around it.
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 conditions, chain controls and every camera: US-50 · SR-207 · US-395.
Snow reports for the other Tahoe resorts
All ten side by side: the Tahoe snow report. One page each: Palisades Tahoe · Northstar · Mt. Rose · Kirkwood · Sugar Bowl · Boreal · Diamond Peak · Sierra-at-Tahoe · Homewood.
- When does Heavenly open? Opening day and lifts
- Heavenly snow forecast for the next 72 hours
- Tahoe ski resort opening dates
Snow on the ground: USDA NRCS SNOTEL station Heavenly Valley (518: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 Heavenly Mountain Resort.