Homewood snow report today
No snow on the ground at the Ward Creek #3 gauge (6,750 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 Ward Creek #3 SNOTEL gauge, 4.6 miles north-west of Homewood at 6,750 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 (-0.1 in 24 h) |
| 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).
Homewood’s own snow report
Homewood’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 skihomewood.com, posted by the resort each morning in season. What is here is measured independently, by the federal gauge on or near the mountain.
Homewood opening day: No date yet.Homewood has not posted an opening day. It did not open in 2025–26, and its own site (skihomewood.com, read Oct 24, 2026) sells passes for 2026–27 and says it expects skiers back this winter.
Chains on the way to Homewood now
Truckee now
No chain controls at Truckee (Caltrans). Checked .
Donner Pass now
No chain controls at Donner Pass (Caltrans). Checked .
Truckee road conditions · Truckee webcams · Do I need chains on Donner Pass? · Donner Pass webcam
Where the snow is measured
The gauge is SNOTEL station Ward Creek #3 (848:CA:SNTL), run by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. It stands 4.6 miles north-west of Homewood at 6,750 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 Homewood
The state highway cameras closest to the resort, on SR-89 on the West Shore and at Tahoe City. They show the road and the snow along it; the resort’s own slope cameras are on skihomewood.com.
Live video, confirmed streaming at ; still image taken .
- SR-89 at Tahoe City / Fairway Dr
- SR-89 at Olympic Valley / Rampart
- SR-28 at Tahoe City / SR-89
- SR-89 at Tahoe City / Alpine Meadows
Homewood Mountain Resort, its snow gauge and the highway cameras around it.
The road to Homewood
From Reno, I-80 west to Truckee (about 32 miles), SR-89 south along the Truckee River to Tahoe City, then SR-89 south down the West Shore for about 6 miles to the resort, whose base lodges sit across the highway from the lake. Allow about an hour and a quarter in good weather.
Road conditions, chain controls and every camera: SR-89 · 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 · Boreal · Diamond Peak · Sierra-at-Tahoe.
Snow on the ground: USDA NRCS SNOTEL station Ward Creek #3 (848: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 Homewood Mountain Resort.